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But I read and always take notes. The entries below are some of the more comprehensive notes I've taken so I put them online. Always happy to talk about them. I'm also taking recommendations for what to read next.</p> <ul> </ul> <div class="mt-4 floaty-cards container-fluid"> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/d9450ab7-f854-4ec8-9048-c30bb887fc81/"><h5 class="card-title">Tim Maughan - Infinite Detail</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>I finished “Infinite Detail”. It’s got somewhat low scores on Good Reads, with most reviewers being unhappy about “the story going nowhere”. I strongly disagree.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/d9450ab7-f854-4ec8-9048-c30bb887fc81/" class="text-muted" title="2024-09-09 11:46"><time datetime="2024-09-09 11:46:00+00:00">2024-09-09 11:46</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/d9450ab7-f854-4ec8-9048-c30bb887fc81/" class="text-muted">271 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/951c11ab-383b-4fcf-a62b-d341ec836eb4/"><h5 class="card-title">Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone - "This Is How You Lose the Time War"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>The story arc is interesting but the hype is ultimately overblown. It’s an exchange of love letters by two spies of opposing far-future factions who, inexplicably, fall in love.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/951c11ab-383b-4fcf-a62b-d341ec836eb4/" class="text-muted" title="2023-05-15 14:47"><time datetime="2023-05-15 14:47:00+00:00">2023-05-15 14:47</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/951c11ab-383b-4fcf-a62b-d341ec836eb4/" class="text-muted">395 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/ac485f7b-c1bd-4c26-aae0-9cf74c04d4dd/"><h5 class="card-title">Adrian Tchaikovsky - "Children of Time"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>No filler, just good ideas. At neck-breaking speed!</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/ac485f7b-c1bd-4c26-aae0-9cf74c04d4dd/" class="text-muted" title="2023-04-15 14:21"><time datetime="2023-04-15 14:21:00+00:00">2023-04-15 14:21</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/ac485f7b-c1bd-4c26-aae0-9cf74c04d4dd/" class="text-muted">321 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/d391750b-f22e-48de-a655-6e416f69c78c/"><h5 class="card-title">Neal Stephenson - "Seveneves"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>This is a good book. It’s rather uneven, with the final part being slow and overly heavy on environmental descriptions. The story arc is novel, interesting, and makes sense.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/d391750b-f22e-48de-a655-6e416f69c78c/" class="text-muted" title="2023-04-09 21:14"><time datetime="2023-04-09 21:14:00+00:00">2023-04-09 21:14</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/d391750b-f22e-48de-a655-6e416f69c78c/" class="text-muted">571 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/a2994274-175a-4ee3-b4ee-524930b7e20c/"><h5 class="card-title">Arthur C. Clarke - "Rendezvous with Rama"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>I had this book on my to-read list since high school. I finally bit the bullet and I have to say I like it a lot. I missed hard science-fiction where the word “science” is actually taken into account.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/a2994274-175a-4ee3-b4ee-524930b7e20c/" class="text-muted" title="2023-01-27 10:35"><time datetime="2023-01-27 10:35:00+00:00">2023-01-27 10:35</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/a2994274-175a-4ee3-b4ee-524930b7e20c/" class="text-muted">791 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/1c5bf8fd-e842-462d-bfa3-1e3b6eb8e102/"><h5 class="card-title">Héctor García, Francesc Miralles - "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>This book contains some insights but they’re shamelessly spread out over the pages of the book, or the minutes of the audiobook. It’s a surprising thing to say given that it’s a super-short book anyway at just 150 pages where each page is around 20 lines with copious margins. The unabridged audiobook version runs at barely over 3 hours. I’m not recommending it, you’ve heard it all before.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/1c5bf8fd-e842-462d-bfa3-1e3b6eb8e102/" class="text-muted" title="2022-08-31 11:37"><time datetime="2022-08-31 11:37:00+00:00">2022-08-31 11:37</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/1c5bf8fd-e842-462d-bfa3-1e3b6eb8e102/" class="text-muted">918 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/e4856268-7655-408f-bc4a-e826c250f8b5/"><h5 class="card-title">Chuck Palahniuk - "Fight Club"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Highly recommended. Well written in direct Hemingwayan prose. The unnamed Narrator of the book is intriguing, and his story-telling is ripe with unique quirks and figures of speech, which make him sound real. The story is off-the-wall and captivating. It’s an interesting read even if you know the movie pretty well.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/e4856268-7655-408f-bc4a-e826c250f8b5/" class="text-muted" title="2022-05-19 08:29"><time datetime="2022-05-19 08:29:00+00:00">2022-05-19 08:29</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/e4856268-7655-408f-bc4a-e826c250f8b5/" class="text-muted">1443 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/abd11ee8-10fb-4e2e-97a5-7c8768d6b9f3/"><h5 class="card-title">Daphne Carr - "Pretty Hate Machine"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Unfortunately, I can’t recommend this. As much as a maniac I am about NIN, I find this book light on background information on PHM and NIN.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/abd11ee8-10fb-4e2e-97a5-7c8768d6b9f3/" class="text-muted" title="2022-04-26 14:45"><time datetime="2022-04-26 14:45:00+00:00">2022-04-26 14:45</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/abd11ee8-10fb-4e2e-97a5-7c8768d6b9f3/" class="text-muted">727 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/ea6cd079-07e1-4b34-83dc-97ec83826514/"><h5 class="card-title">Amanda Petrusich - "Pink Moon"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>It’s a little unclear to me what this book wanted to be. It’s part a detailed story on the album’s creation and cultural influence, and part a memoir by the author and others on how they first heard Nick Drake, as well as what his music and this album meant for them.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/ea6cd079-07e1-4b34-83dc-97ec83826514/" class="text-muted" title="2022-03-22 14:47"><time datetime="2022-03-22 14:47:00+00:00">2022-03-22 14:47</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/ea6cd079-07e1-4b34-83dc-97ec83826514/" class="text-muted">303 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/5e668734-3ba1-4be1-aeb9-a682966bd708/"><h5 class="card-title">Marc Weidenbaum - Selected Ambient Works Volume II</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>This is a wonderful book about a mind-bending music album by Aphex Twin that I loved from my first listen. What follows is part review, part note taking for my own future use. Consider this a “spoiler alert” if a non-fiction book can be spoiled. Later in the article I call the album simply SAW2 for convenience.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/5e668734-3ba1-4be1-aeb9-a682966bd708/" class="text-muted" title="2022-02-11 16:17"><time datetime="2022-02-11 16:17:00+00:00">2022-02-11 16:17</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/5e668734-3ba1-4be1-aeb9-a682966bd708/" class="text-muted">2415 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/fc940f9e-7155-4879-b051-9eefd63889d0/"><h5 class="card-title">Thomas M. Sterner - The Practicing Mind</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>The core idea of the book is that practice isn’t the same as learning. The latter doesn’t imply the former, but the former does imply the latter. Practice is applied learning which requires a lot of repetition. Sports studies say 60 repetitions per day for 21 days. A related insight is that 10,000 hours doing a thing makes you an expert. The missing insight in both of those is that it’s not the outcome that matters but the process.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/fc940f9e-7155-4879-b051-9eefd63889d0/" class="text-muted" title="2022-02-07 12:56"><time datetime="2022-02-07 12:56:00+00:00">2022-02-07 12:56</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/fc940f9e-7155-4879-b051-9eefd63889d0/" class="text-muted">1337 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/6468e4e5-d4d9-4686-96bb-f4e687753dd5/"><h5 class="card-title">Isaac Asimov - Foundation (the original trilogy)</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Strange books. They are well-written, neatly composed (each one around 250 pages), and describe an almost 1,000 year long piece of our galaxy’s future history. It’s a single story but composed of a series of smaller stories. Due to the passage of time, many characters only occupy a short span of the book. I enjoyed the books but some parts didn’t exactly stand the test of time.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/6468e4e5-d4d9-4686-96bb-f4e687753dd5/" class="text-muted" title="2021-10-10 21:28"><time datetime="2021-10-10 21:28:00+00:00">2021-10-10 21:28</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/6468e4e5-d4d9-4686-96bb-f4e687753dd5/" class="text-muted">1286 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/1978f823-953d-4f82-8b96-65dd9f0f4404/"><h5 class="card-title">Isaac Asimov - "I, Robot"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>An inspiring fixup novel about the rise of AI. Pretty short with the stories being relatively self-contained, revolving around the Three Laws of Robotics. There’s a few surprises.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/1978f823-953d-4f82-8b96-65dd9f0f4404/" class="text-muted" title="2021-09-15 15:25"><time datetime="2021-09-15 15:25:00+00:00">2021-09-15 15:25</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/1978f823-953d-4f82-8b96-65dd9f0f4404/" class="text-muted">3260 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/aace2a38-4247-4f4f-9758-54cdd5c609b6/"><h5 class="card-title">James Clear - "Atomic Habits"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>This is a short and to-the-point book sprinkled with anecdotal information to keep things relatable. If you’re looking for hard peer-reviewed science, this ain’t it. That being said, its core tenet and particular pieces of advice sound sensible. Many you have probably heard before communicated in less coherent fashion. I’d say, worth a read!</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/aace2a38-4247-4f4f-9758-54cdd5c609b6/" class="text-muted" title="2021-09-01 17:34"><time datetime="2021-09-01 17:34:00+00:00">2021-09-01 17:34</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/aace2a38-4247-4f4f-9758-54cdd5c609b6/" class="text-muted">1371 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/d4bd87aa-ba57-49fc-b3b9-af4655979117/"><h5 class="card-title">Daniel Kahneman - "Thinking, Fast and Slow"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>While it starts somewhat cringeworthy and could have easily been three times shorter, I still found it a great read in the end. I won’t be making a thorough summary as it appears Wikipedia’s got <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking%2C_Fast_and_Slow">a very good one</a>. I’ll focus on the things that made the biggest impression on me.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/d4bd87aa-ba57-49fc-b3b9-af4655979117/" class="text-muted" title="2021-09-01 14:29"><time datetime="2021-09-01 14:29:00+00:00">2021-09-01 14:29</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/d4bd87aa-ba57-49fc-b3b9-af4655979117/" class="text-muted">4901 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/1a5e1bcf-f82a-4498-b49b-f750bb17d55c/"><h5 class="card-title">Yuval Noah Harari - "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>I’m hearing this is a rather controversial book. In my view it organizes the understanding of the dual reality we live in, where there’s some <em>objective truth</em> of “rivers, trees, and lions”, but there’s also the <em>imagined reality</em> of “gods, corporations, and nations”. Here’s some notes I took while reading.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/1a5e1bcf-f82a-4498-b49b-f750bb17d55c/" class="text-muted" title="2021-01-15 12:31"><time datetime="2021-01-15 12:31:00+00:00">2021-01-15 12:31</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/1a5e1bcf-f82a-4498-b49b-f750bb17d55c/" class="text-muted">2732 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/047a1def-177e-4b7e-88e4-2e1f86c91445/"><h5 class="card-title">Safiya Umoja Noble - "Algorithms of Oppression"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Important subject matter and good data-backed observations. On the other hand, a dry and somewhat uninspired execution. But maybe it’s partially due to the topic being unpleasant to deal with?</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/047a1def-177e-4b7e-88e4-2e1f86c91445/" class="text-muted" title="2021-01-03 19:52"><time datetime="2021-01-03 19:52:00+00:00">2021-01-03 19:52</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/047a1def-177e-4b7e-88e4-2e1f86c91445/" class="text-muted">595 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/d3845f34-7184-4d56-804e-2c9e2cb10719/"><h5 class="card-title">Jerry Z. Muller - "The Tyranny of Metrics"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Starts off very strong against metric fixation but at some devolves into an argument against transparency.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/d3845f34-7184-4d56-804e-2c9e2cb10719/" class="text-muted" title="2020-07-01 13:26"><time datetime="2020-07-01 13:26:00+00:00">2020-07-01 13:26</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/d3845f34-7184-4d56-804e-2c9e2cb10719/" class="text-muted">490 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/4d97692e-780b-41c1-805d-c03392ad9ec4/"><h5 class="card-title">Emily Nagoski - "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>A more accurate title for the book would have been “hashtag burnout: a feminist perspective”. As a man, I realize I’m not in the target audience for this book. I’ll keep this short and will not put a numeric rating.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/4d97692e-780b-41c1-805d-c03392ad9ec4/" class="text-muted" title="2020-04-03 09:36"><time datetime="2020-04-03 09:36:00+00:00">2020-04-03 09:36</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/4d97692e-780b-41c1-805d-c03392ad9ec4/" class="text-muted">377 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/5ee5e33b-cf43-407c-a2a4-074ec6cbd4d9/"><h5 class="card-title">Marshall Rosenberg - "Nonviolent Communication"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Nonviolent communication is about establishing a relationship of honesty and empathy. Here’s my notes from reading the book.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/5ee5e33b-cf43-407c-a2a4-074ec6cbd4d9/" class="text-muted" title="2020-02-25 09:54"><time datetime="2020-02-25 09:54:00+00:00">2020-02-25 09:54</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/5ee5e33b-cf43-407c-a2a4-074ec6cbd4d9/" class="text-muted">953 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/df587551-9e73-416d-9697-029b12487962/"><h5 class="card-title">Julian Jaynes - "The Origin Of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>A fascinating and unexpected perspective on what makes us human. We are far less conscious than we think. I recommend you read it yourself as my summary below is rather hastily written during reading.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/df587551-9e73-416d-9697-029b12487962/" class="text-muted" title="2018-08-30 08:31"><time datetime="2018-08-30 08:31:00+00:00">2018-08-30 08:31</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/df587551-9e73-416d-9697-029b12487962/" class="text-muted">574 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/3dece494-2910-4bf9-aafe-e326de004fbb/"><h5 class="card-title">John Kotter - "A Sense of Urgency"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Rather a tedious read but there’s some insight there nonetheless. I made some short working notes.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/3dece494-2910-4bf9-aafe-e326de004fbb/" class="text-muted" title="2017-02-06 19:14"><time datetime="2017-02-06 19:14:00+00:00">2017-02-06 19:14</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/3dece494-2910-4bf9-aafe-e326de004fbb/" class="text-muted">146 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/5e0f267e-2836-495e-992b-b428b7588074/"><h5 class="card-title">Chris Voss - "Never Split The Difference"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>The best book on negotiation I’ve ever read. I successfully used the techniques described in it many times, including during some pivotal moments in my life. It does change how you perceive dealing with other people. What follows is a working synopsis that I come back to every now and then.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/5e0f267e-2836-495e-992b-b428b7588074/" class="text-muted" title="2017-01-23 17:46"><time datetime="2017-01-23 17:46:00+00:00">2017-01-23 17:46</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <a href="/negotiation/">#Negotiation</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/5e0f267e-2836-495e-992b-b428b7588074/" class="text-muted">863 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/a7e1061c-da4f-4737-b2be-7c2617f461fe/"><h5 class="card-title">Stephen Batchelor - "Buddhism Without Beliefs"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Since death alone is certain and the time of death is uncertain - what should I do? What does it mean to lead a life that will stop? In this book Stephen argues that Dharma practice is the courage to confront what it means to be human. What follows is less of a review and more of a digest, or synopsis.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/a7e1061c-da4f-4737-b2be-7c2617f461fe/" class="text-muted" title="2016-12-15 01:15"><time datetime="2016-12-15 01:15:00+00:00">2016-12-15 01:15</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/a7e1061c-da4f-4737-b2be-7c2617f461fe/" class="text-muted">1204 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/b05be83a-2346-49e5-b781-4add6b135c35/"><h5 class="card-title">Eckhart Tolle - "Power of Now"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Profound ideas buried in pseudoscientific nonsense.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/b05be83a-2346-49e5-b781-4add6b135c35/" class="text-muted" title="2016-07-10 00:31"><time datetime="2016-07-10 00:31:00+00:00">2016-07-10 00:31</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/b05be83a-2346-49e5-b781-4add6b135c35/" class="text-muted">643 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/2659d254-b7e1-4a1c-a28c-ff6ddc81ab15/"><h5 class="card-title">Miyamoto Musashi - "Book of Five Rings"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>One of my favorites, it’s a poetic yet pragmatic depiction of Zen philosophy under the guise of a swordmanship manual. Here’s my working summary of the work.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/2659d254-b7e1-4a1c-a28c-ff6ddc81ab15/" class="text-muted" title="2016-05-27 19:25"><time datetime="2016-05-27 19:25:00+00:00">2016-05-27 19:25</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/2659d254-b7e1-4a1c-a28c-ff6ddc81ab15/" class="text-muted">614 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/ff8d7eed-4230-4dc0-9e87-63b2519734ff/"><h5 class="card-title">Scott Rosenberg - "Dreaming In Code"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>Follows the development of Chandler, a now defunct attempt at creating an open-source Outlook competitor. The company behind the project, OSAF, tried to differentiate themselves radically from typical software house corporations but ended up repeating every mistake in the book, including the ones described decades before in The Mythical Man Month.</p></p> </div> <div class="card-footer"> <p class="small my-0"> <a href="/ff8d7eed-4230-4dc0-9e87-63b2519734ff/" class="text-muted" title="2016-04-30 13:35"><time datetime="2016-04-30 13:35:00+00:00">2016-04-30 13:35</time></a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/books/">#Books</a> <span class="dot">·</span> <a href="/ff8d7eed-4230-4dc0-9e87-63b2519734ff/" class="text-muted">199 more words</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="card shadow-sm bg-dark"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/a3cff01d-2451-465f-abd3-91545f700a46/"><h5 class="card-title">Daniel Golberg - “Minecraft"</h5></a> <p class="card-text"><p>The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game That Changed Everything Not a great art piece. 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