Books Attempted The Body Flight Behavior The Uninhabitable Earth Quiet Astrophysics for People in a Hurry The Gene Awareness Sacred Economics White Fragility The Fifth Season The Upswing The Surrender Experiment The Fabric of the Cosmos The Common Good North Projects Building initial version of Steady Refactoring Logger Personal content manager
Non-fiction The Square and the Tower The Fall of Public Man The Effective Executive Possible Minds Draft No. 4 The Innovator’s Dilemma Fiction Consider Phlebas Articles Status as a Service Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility Conversations Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People Palaces for the People Lance Armstrong and Malcolm Gladwell Series Adam Grant — Work Life The Dropout Presentations Martin Rees — Prospects for Humanity Chip Conely — The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace Ian McEwan — Machines Like Me Movies & TV Free Solo The Dawn Wall Icarus
My first complete year living in San Francisco felt much more eventful than the six in Palo Alto. The constant pull of the city meant less downtime for side-projects but I think the tradeoff was well worth it. The following is a bunch of stuff I read, watched, listened to or attended in 2018. Non-fiction Kinda jumped all over the place this year, my goal for 2019 is to form a discipline writing more notes and summaries.