A list of books I read in 2023 · Jesse Squires
Continuing another tradition, here are the books I read in 2023. Similar to my previous post highlighting my top posts of 2023, I also skipped publishing my ...| Jesse Squires
2024 is coming to an end, so it is again time for me to reflect on what I have read this year. I ended up reading 39 books this year, of which most were non-fiction, and many were health-related. Just like every year, I will summarize all the books I have read. My five favorite (☆) books of the year were: The Idea Factory (9.) I’m Off Then (11.) Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead (14.) Good Energy (26.) Winter Swimming (28.) However, it is always difficult to pick the top five books ...| Florian Hartmann
As the year is coming to an end, it is time for me to reflect back on what I read this year. Just like last year, I ended up reading about a book a week. That’s a pretty good pace for me, and one that I plan on keeping next year as well. My five favorite (☆) books of the year were: Nonviolent Communication (3.) Sophie’s World (11.) The Cuckoo’s Egg (14.) The Undoing Project (30.) Outlive (45.) For the first half of the year, I read my usual mix of tech, nonfiction, pop-scientific and ...| Florian Hartmann
A habit that I have had for a few years is that I try to focus each year on some particular goal. In the past years these have been things such as learning to cook well or deeply understanding how to invest. For 2022, I decided to focus the year on reading. Concretely, I decided to read a book a week. Following the traditionofthepastyears, this blog post summarizes all books I have read this year. This thus amounts to 52 books for the 52 weeks of the year. In case this post is too long for yo...| Florian Hartmann
For thepastfouryears, I have been doing yearly reading summaries now. Initially, I started because I really enjoyed reading such lists from other people. Now, I mainly write them because it is a great way to reflect back on the year. This year is no different in that regard. --- Software Engineering at Google In 2016, Google published a book about Site Reliability Engineering, the SRE book. Last year, the SWE book followed: A very detailed account of how software engineering works at Google. ...| Florian Hartmann
I have been doing these reading lists for some years now and writing them has always been a lot of fun. 2020 was a different year in many ways though – I went from reading a ton during the first lo...| florian.github.io
The zine, We Are All Very Anxious: Six Theses on Anxiety and Why It is Effectively Preventing Militancy, and One Possible Strategy for Overcoming It, was published by The Institute for Precarious Consciousness and CrimethInc in 2014. (Anarchist Library, Zine PDF). I decided to read it again recently because it felt relevant to the current political moment in the US. It is as prescient as ever.| Jesse Squires
Continuing another tradition, here are the books I read in 2023. Similar to my previous post highlighting my top posts of 2023, I also skipped publishing my ...| Jesse Squires
