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263 reviews

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte

informative fast-paced

3.5

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

adventurous informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Introducing HTML5 by Bruce Lawson, Remy Sharp

2.75

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

adventurous reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

adventurous challenging dark informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Uncurled by Daniel Stenberg

informative fast-paced

3.75

It's a good collection of nuggets of wisdom and I learned a fair bit. But it definitely felt... rushed out? Some authors have a distinctively blog-post style of writing and I thought this was one example of it. I still appreciated it a lot, though!

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Dave Thomas, Andrew Hunt

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill

dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I disagreed with a bunch of statements in this book. For example, the "assumption of neutrality", if I remember the term correctly, seems like a massive strawman that the author spends a lot of time to beat down, when it doesn't even sound like a reasonable assumption in the first place.

But it did get me thinking about the issues presented enough that I actually want to write more about them, so for a philosophy book, yeah, that's 5/5 due to achieving its goals!