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Books Read in 2024
| # | Title | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titanium Noir | Nick Harkaway | Gripping, Gibsonian and lots of fun. |
| 2 | On Being Nice | School of Life | Some good tips, written in a calming, conversational tone, but will it stick? |
| 3 | LAN Party | Merritt K | Nostalgic, and an interesting historical perspective. |
| 4 | Rosewater | Tade Thompson | Interesting ideas, but a bit sprawling and unfocused at the end. Felt like a lead-up to a sequel. |
| 5 | Flash Boys | Michael Lewis | Lots of fun, learned a bit about HFT. |
| 6 | An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management | Will Larson | More of a grab bag than a guide, focussing on the mega-corp scale, some useful ideas. |
| 7 | The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham | Foundational, and key for perspective. |
| 8 | Liar's Poker | Michael Lewis | Interesting and well told. It's clear I'd not be well suited to investment banking. |
| 9 | Hedge Fund Market Wizards | Jack Schwager | Interesting, and not entirely coherent perspectives on trading. |
| 10 | The Story of the Lost Child | Elena Ferrante | Hard to finish as it was so sad, but also truly alive, even thrilling at times. |
| 11 | The One-Straw Revolution | Masanobu Fukuoka | Incredibly insightful and inspirational. Changed the way I think about what it is possible to understand. |
| 12 | Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other | Danielle Dutton | A gem, sparkling, beautiful snippets, ideas, emotions and turns of phrase. |
| 13 | The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | Great essay, poor introduction. |
| 14 | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | Slow to start but convinced me not to doubt NS. Relevant, interesting ideas about where we're going with LLMs, some similar ideas to Snow Crash about information crossing over from the virtual into the biological. |
| 15 | I'm Afraid That's All We Have Time For | Jen Calleja | Well written, and occasionally quite troubling short stories, felt very her. |
| 16 | The Night of Baba Yaga | Akira Otani | Fun, pulpy, with a somewhat confusingly unexpected twist at the very end. |
| 17 | Slow Productivity | Cal Newport | Essential perspective on how to think about productivity in knowledge work. |