Books of 2019

Super interesting, really enjoyed it.

Weird & funny, entertaining read.

Okay - interesting, sorta, but disagree with a lot. Very OOP & java-focused.

Re-read, fun.

Read last year, forgot to write down.

Very fun series.

Book two. Like this series – neat setting, good gradual reveal of premise.

Great follup to Worldly. Real interesting; neat perspective of being written in the 1930’s.

Interesting analysis; kinda wish it was more actionable.

Not what I expected, really great, sad.

Last in the triology, good conclusion.

Great & inspirational primer on Indigenous resistance to Canada’s shittiness.

Really good, really sad.

Platte cleanser; weird & funny-ish, even it’s not exactly light subjects.

Saw him speak last year. Interesting book, enjoyable read.

Interesting; very honest look at trying to be more sustainable.

Short, inspiring, thought-provoking.

Real interesting; mix of prescient & great anysis & “wow, things have changed”

Light, informative, enjoyable.

I’ve had this book for a while, but had never read the whole thing before. Makes more sense after learning Prolog. Read in memory of Joe.

Short & cogent; excellent primer.

Read on planes while travelling. Funny, as Bill is.

Awesome; instructive, plus a great tool for examining spaces.

Short, good history. Upsetting how little we learn.

Really gripping, need to get the rest of the series.

Quite good; summed up some of the big philosphical problems with programmers.

Great (online) book about teaching tech. Lots to reflect on.

Follow-up to perspectives missing from Turing’s Man.

Weird look at a strange sort of programming.

Great follow-up to Worldly. Commentary on excerpts from the greats; very good.

Real interesting economic/sociological analysis. Very thought-provoking.

Interesting approach to startup equity distribution. Repetitive book thought.

Great summary of Capital & Marx in general. Illuminating, fascinating.

Interesting fusion of Marx & Freud. Alienation as psychological repression.

Short but good. Referenced A Pattern Language, good ideas.

Very enjoyable read – good story, moved well & covered a lot. Women in the book, not so great though.

Bunch of blog entries that Joel Spolsky liked in 2004. Pretty meh.

Very enjoyable. Funny, interesting. Makes me want to read her books & write more.

Neat idea here.

Alexander proposes a structured approach for finding design solutions, based on set theory and mathematical processes. I quite like his attempt to systematize this sort of thing; this in particular seems like a great way of making a vastly more powerful version of mind mapping.

I really want to try building some sort of tool for this sort of planning & decision making.

Great critique of patriarchy from a fantastic author. Very highly recommended.

A thorough and compelling argument for why an anti-war movement requires what we would call feminism in the modern era (although Woolf rails against that term here)