Review: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
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 ...
Review: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
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...
Review: Site Reliability Engineering by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, et al
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...
Review: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
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 ...
Review: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).
Gruntwork Infrastructure Packages: world-class infrastructure, all of the control, none of the work
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...
Review: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
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...
Review: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
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...
From Italy to Ireland
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...