Rearranging my reading list to mix up the content and genre was definitely a good idea. Ready Player One got bumped up in my queue because I…
Historical fiction is a strange genre. The first example of this that I remember reading was The Agony and the Ecstasy. That was a very good…
I really need to stop reading books about families with dead daughters. I have read 8 books so far this year and 3 of them have their main…
See How Small is Amazon's Spotlight pick for January 2015, whatever that means. Basically, there was a list on Amazon of books and I picked…
Somehow The Martian ended up on my reading list and I am quite happy that it did. I found it difficult to put down, even more so that some…
Focus is one of the attributes that I like most about myself. It allows me to drop out of the rest of the world and engross myself in a book…
A couple years ago I picked up Gone Girl and was quite impressed. It was the kind of book that was really hard to put down, and more than…
This may seem like a bit of an odd choice for me to read, but I've been wondering what the big fuss was about this series of books…
I have recently become more disillusioned with the culture around me and which I am a part. When I was working at Facebook, I had…
I had heard about the story of Chris Kyle through various sources over the past couple years, but I had never got around to reading this…
Through a series of comedic errors I was recommended the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. I had never heard of it before it was…
It has officially been over a month now so I feel ready to write about this, after 7 years and 8 months, Lauren and I have broken up. I know…
I have been playing around with literate Haskell recently while working on some exercises in Types and Programming Languages. The book uses…
There recently was a bit of controversy over a paper that was published by some researchers at Facebook. In the press there was mostly misinformation and alarmist pieces of yellow journalism. This post is about how my name was used to further the agenda of a disingenuous Wall Street Journal reporter by taking what I said out of context.
I have recently started reading Quiet, a book about introversion. I am an introvert, something that has always been clear to me, and in…