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A wonderful exploration of the role of intelligence in society and whether ignorance really is bliss. It’s easy to guess the basic plot arc from get-go, and some ...

This book contains a wonderful discussion of creativity, coming up with ideas, and doing great work… Wrapped in the dull language and style of a book on managemen...

This is an amazing branding and marketing piece for Google. It’s also, for the most part, an interesting read that’s worthwhile for anyone in the DevOps space. T...

With this second book of the series, The Kingkiller Chronicle starts to hit its stride. The characters are more interesting, the writing is better, the jokes are ...

(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

An Infrastructure Package is a reusable, battle-tested, documented, configurable, best-practices definition of a piece of infrastructure. We think it’s a better w...

I finally took the time to read this classic. It starts off a bit slow and feels quaint by modern standards, but that’s only because it was one of the first books...

I’m not sure why, but I simply couldn’t put this book down. Sanderson has a remarkable ability to make you care about the characters in the book. Now that I’m do...

Last year was a bit crazy. I published a book; I started a company; Molly and I sold everything we owned and did a cross-country road trip, with stops at the Bonn...

Beware reading this book before bed. Not because it’s scary, but because the action scenes get your heart pumping and the cliffhangers make it impossible to put d...