books

Books with * are books I would read again and recommend.

2021

The Magic of Light - Jean Rosenthal, Lael Wertenbaker, Marion Kinsella

Web Development with Clojure - Dmitri Sotnikov  The Importance of being earnest - Oscar Wilde Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew B. Crawford *The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough *Looking Forward - Franklin D. Roosevelt Carl Zeiss - Stephan Paetrow and Wolfgang Wimmer

Fireside Chats by Franklin D. Roosevelt

A fortnight in Sian: Extracts from a Diary / Sian: A Coup D'etat - Chiang Kai-shek, Mayling Soong Chiang The rust programming language - Steve Klabnik *Beyond the deep - William Stone and Barbara am Ende with Monte Paulsen Currently:

*Starting Point - Hayao Miyazaki

*I want to be a Mathematician - Paul Halmos

*Rhetoric - Aristotle

Brand new - Wally Olins

Love's Executioner - Irvin Yalom Shark Doc, Shark Lab - Jeremy Stafford-Deitssch

Future:

The Forest - William Pomeroy Seeing with fresh eyes - Edward Tufte The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

Wave Woman - Vicky Heldreich Durand

We didn't see each other after that - Ashley Gates

The Humane Interface - Jef Raskin Designing Products People Love - Scott Hurff I think, therefore I draw - Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Sidereus nuncius - Galileo Galilei Paddling North - Audre Sutherland The complete rhyming dictionary - Clement Wood On Writers and Writing - John Gardner Writers on Writing - Robert Pack and Jay Parini Liber Abaci - Fibonacci Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Pasteur's Quadrant - Donald Stokes Henry Wellcome - Robert James The Story of Metlakahtla - Henry Wellcome Made To Stick - Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Today and Tomorrow - Henry Ford

The Search for Common Ground - Howard Thurman

The Way To Love - Anthony De Mello



2020

*The Laws guide to drawing birds - John Laws

*The Laws guide to nature drawing and journaling - John Laws On Writing - Hemmingway

This Could Be Our Future - Strickler *Wandering - Hesse (x2) Writing Without Bullshit - Bernoff

Machine Learning Systems - Smith So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo Let my people go surfing - Yvon Chouinard

How to Take Smart Notes Eloquent JavaScript - Marijn Haverbeke *It might be an apple - Shinsuke Yoshitake The human use of human beings - Norbert Weiner Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff *The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick <— 16

started... and for some reason couldn't finish

Collected Papers of Michael E. Soule

North Korea's Hidden Revolution The history of the United States Post Service to the year 1829 How to take smart notes - Sönke Ahrens Writers on writing - John Winkour

Good Reason for Bad Feelings - Randolph Nesse

My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayer Henry Miller on Writing

The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham will likely finish later

My Life - Bill Clinton Chapter 8 will likely finish later

China's Examination Hell - Ichisada Miyazaki will not finish

The Restless Wave - John McCain will not finish

Dreaming Mill Valley - Christie Nelson will not finish

Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast - Noah Seigel and Christian Schwarz

The Game - Neil Strauss will not finish The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form - Kenneth Clark — probably won't finish The Hypomanic Edge - John D. Gartner - will not finish Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350 - will try again later

People, Profiles & Trust - Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss

Becoming - Michelle Obama

Give Work - Leila Janah

Leading - Alex Ferguson

New Collected Poems - Wendell Berry How Google Works - Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn Republic - Plato Holy Bible

Millennials and Moments that Made Us - Shaun Scott

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain x + y Seven Sketches of Compositionally A Pattern Language The Magic of Light

Cookbooks

Ruffage

Movies 2020

Stand By Me 1986 The Worm Turns 1937



Movies 2019

Dumbo 1941 Vertigo 1958 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993

PEN15 2019

Pinocchio 1940 Peter Pan 1953

Becoming Warren Buffett 2017

The Goonies 1985 Casper 1995 The Birds 1963

The Neverending Story 1984



Movies

Coco 2017

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997

La La Land 2016

About Time 2013

I, Daniel Blake 2016

Oscar Animated Shorts 2018

Shape of Water 2017

The Post 2017

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017

Black Panther 2018

Suburbicon 2017

Battle of the Sexes 2017

Spotlight 2015

Ladybird 2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

Ready Player One 2018

Call me by Your Name

The Founder

Crazy Rich Asians

A Star is Born

A Simple Favor



Recipe Books

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking - Marcella Hazan

Extra Virgin - Gabriele Corocos and Debi Mazar

My Rice Bowl - Rachel Yang

Maangchi’s Real Korean Cooking - Maangchi

Big Food Big Love - Heather Earnhardt

Mamushka - Olia Hercules

Sea and Smoke - Blaine Wetzel

Donabe - Naoko Moore and Kyle Connaughton Gjelina - Travis Lett

Staples

*Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry Thoreau

*The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

*Rhetoric - Aristotle

*The Elements of Style - Strunk and White



2012

Venture Deals - Brad Feld

The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

*Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston

The Startup Owner’s Manual - Steve Blank

Hackers and Painters - Paul Graham



2013

Without Their Permission - Alexis Ohanian

Tribes - Seth Godin



2014

Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg



2015

Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug - Peter Pringle

Acne Rx - James Fulton



2016

Leading Snowflakes

So Sad Today - Melissa Broder



2017

*The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

*Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston

Zero to One - Peter Thiel

*How To Be Rich - Paul Getty

*The Double Helix - James Watson

*Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman

Word Clues Vocabulary Builder

*Rhetoric - Aristotle

Anything You Want - Derek Sivers

Business Adventures - John Brooks

Radical Candor - Kim Scott

*Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

*Starting Point, 1979-1996 - Hayao Miyazaki

Turning Point, 1997-2008 - Hayao Miyazaki

*Personal History - Katharine Graham



2018

*The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company - David Packard 41 - George W. Bush *Creativity Inc. - Ed Catmull When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi *Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance *Shoe Dog - Phil Knight *Sam Walton: Made in America - Sam Walton Sapiens: a brief history of humankind - Yuval Noah Harari Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself - Amanda Litman There Should Be Flowers - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza What Happened - Hillary Clinton Stories from the Leopold Shack: San County Revisited - Estella Leopold My Brief History - Stephen Hawking The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft - Paul Allen *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values - Robert Pirsig *American Caves and Caving - William R. Halliday *State of Affairs - Esther Perel Literally Show Me A Healthy Person - Darcie Wilder *Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche *Here is New York - E.B. White *My Life and Work - Henry Ford *Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony - Akio Morita Peerless Science: Peer Review and U. S. Science Policy My Father Marconi - Degna Marconi Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker *Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick Salt Fat Acid Heat - Samin Nosrat Gratitude - Oliver Sacks The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Dear Founder - Maynard Webb 1776 *Rules for Revolutionaries - Becky Bond and Zack Exley ← 33



2019

My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg Exploring American Caves - Franklin Folsom

Legendary Locals of Mill Valley - Joyce Kleiner Women Who Run with the Wolves -Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg

*The Elements of Style - Strunk and White

Aesop's Fables - V S Vernon Jones (end january)

The Internet is My Religion - Jim Gilliam

Season of the Witch - David Talbot

The Way To Wealth - Benjamin Franklin

*Understanding Knowledge as a Commons - Charlotte Hess Dreyer's English - Benjamin Dreyer The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time - Will Durant *The Elements of Style - Strunk and White (again) *Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle (end march)

52 weeks of UX

Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg

The Secrets of Handwriting - Rafael Schermann

A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker - John Regazzi

Built to Last by Jim Collins

Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

Spotify Teardown (end july)

Rework - Jason Fried and David Heinmeier Hansson

Our Revolution - Bernie Sanders

Where We Go From Here - Bernie Sanders (end august) Reboot - Jerry Colonna

Roads and Bridges - Nadia Eghbal Steward-Ownership - Purpose Foundation *How Economics Shapes Science - Paula Stephan

The Art of Gathering - Priya Parker Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth

Rules for Revolutionaries - Becky Bond and Zack Exley The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn

*Wandering - Hermann Hesse *The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte *Visual Explanations - Edward Tufte *Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte <— 39 *Rhetoric - Aristotle The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin <— 41



Published by cindy 5 years ago on Wednesday the 16th of January 2019.

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