Category: Book Reviews
A Brief History of Misogyny by Jack Holland
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I’m a dude and thus benefit from a history of misogyny. I’ve been raised in a world that views misogyny as alright, and have perpetrated behaviours towards my wife that felt normal to me at the time. Over the years I’ve grown to see them as petty and harming to my wife. I’m sure I…
Cognitive Productivity with macOS
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Let’s start with a disclaimer, the author saw me Tweet about some stuff (I don’t even remember what now) and gifted me a copy of his book. Actually he gifted me 3 copies and told me to give away the copies I didn’t want (including the one I read). I had already purchased the Kindle…
The Organised Writer
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Given that most of what I do starts with writing, I’d say firmly that I’m a writer now more than a programmer. I certainly devote more time to my writing than I do to my programming. When I saw The Organised Writer being recommended by a few people I follow, I grabbed it right away…
Barking Up The Wrong Tree
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The goal of Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker gives away the goal of the book. Barker is going to show us why what we know about success is mostly wrong. There is a lot in this book, so I wont’ be able to cover it all. I’ll highlight some of the ideas that…
3 Thoughts from Deep Work by Cal Newport
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This is my third reading of Deep Work by Cal Newport. During my first reading of Deep Work I remember being excited because someone was finally saying all the things I’d been thinking and circling around in my productivity life for a few years. While I don’t get that same feeling when I read it…
The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
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From the subtitle, Andrew Yang positions The War on Normal people as his answer to deal with the problems America is facing with disappearing jobs and thus income issues in their homes. ## What is the Problem? In Yang’s mind the issue is that we have a lack of financial mobility and stability. This insecurity…
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
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I don’t often talk about the fiction books that I read, but this was too good to pass up. There are some minor spoilers ahead, so be warned. In Pet a young teenage girl named Jam manages to conjure an “angel” out of a painting her mother made. The angel is here to hunt a…
Reclaimed by Andy Steiger
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After I read The God Delusion, I had more than one atheist reach out to me asking if I had books on faith that would be compelling. They felt that I had treated the material in the book fairly and wanted to do the same thing. Then my wife told me an old friend had…
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
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There is a famous line that says information wants to be free, but Cory Doctrow would disagree with that statement. In fact the title of his book, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, clearly contradicts this statement. The purpose of Doctrow’s book is to show users how to make money in the current internet system[^1].…
Man’s Search for Meaning
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Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, is a classic book that shows up on many lists of books that one must read in their life. There is good reason in this. The first section of the book is all about Frankl’s experience in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and it’s truly horrific. If…
