Year In Review - 2024
Great posts/articles/talks read/watched
- Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People
- The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
- Simone Weil on Temptation, the Key to Discipline, and How to Be a Complete Human Being
- ‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers
- The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
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Stop Acting Like You’re Famous
In the end, find something you enjoy doing and just do it because you enjoy it. If you have to, make some goals for yourself, but never for your “audience”.
- No One Buys Books
- Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.
- Building AI products
- How to create software quality
- Fast Crimes at Lambda School
- I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
- ‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut
- Late Again
- When the Mismanagerial Class Destroys Great Companies
- DHH & Prime
- Creatures That Don’t Conform
- Revealing the Unseen World of Slime Mould
- The Ramen Lord
- Nick Cave
To-Do:
- For next year I’m going to break these down by month and maybe add some tags 🤔
Favourite technical books discovered (and read)
- I started but didn’t fully complete a number of technical/managerial/strategy books this year.
Books Read
| Title | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | January 08, 2024 |
| Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Cassandra Khaw | January 08, 2024 |
| Children of Memory | Adrian Tchaikovsky | January 08, 2024 |
| Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane | January 10, 2024 |
| Outlive | Peter Attia | February 12, 2024 |
| Wayward | Chuck Wendig | March 19, 2024 |
| The Instruments of Darkness | John Connolly | April 30, 2024 |
| You Like It Darker | Stephen King | June 02, 2024 |
| City in Ruins | Don Winslow | June 23, 2024 |
| Dietrich | Don Winslow | July 08, 2024 |
| When We Cease to Understand the World | Benjamín Labatut | July 14, 2024 |
| The MANIAC | Benjamin Labatut | July 17, 2024 |
| The Cabin at the End of the World | Paul Tremblay | July 19, 2024 |
| Horrorstor | Grady Hendrix | July 19, 2024 |
| Horror Movie | Paul Tremblay | July 23, 2024 |
| Quint | Robert Lautner | July 26, 2024 |
| The Trees | Percival Everett | August 03, 2024 |
| Babel | R. F. Kuang | August 04, 2024 |
| BioShock Rapture | John Shirley | August 26, 2024 |
| BRZRKR Vol 1 | Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt | August 26, 2024 |
| The Book of Elsewhere | Keanu Reeves, China Miéville | September 12, 2024 |
| The Troop | Nick Cutter | October 11, 2024 |
| Alien Clay | Adrian Tchaikovsky | October 11, 2024 |
| The Deep | Nick Cutter | October 13, 2024 |
| The Saturday Night Ghost Club | Craig Davidson | October 20, 2024 |
| Night and Day | John Connolly | November 12, 2024 |
| The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick M. Lencioni | November 25, 2024 |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | November 30, 2024 |
| A Head Full of Ghosts | Paul Tremblay | December 22, 2024 |
Number of books written or published
- Zero 🥺
Gigs
Favorite podcasts
- Black Box - The Guardian
- Sex Power Money - Sara Pascoe
- The 14 years that broke Britain, part 1
Programming languages (and related) that I hope to explore more deeply
- Graph Databases
- Cursor
- Neovim
Life-changing technology “discovered”
- ChatGPT
- App Script
- Omakube
- dotfiles
- Fzf
- Claude
- Reeder
- Kitty
- Just/Make
- UV
- Ruff
- Cursor
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