When I was younger (grades 4 to 8), I would read books voraciously, but as I grew older, I read books less and less.

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Written: Bryne Hobarts and Tobias Huber
Started Reading: 2025-04-15

The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao
Written: Venkatesh Rao
Started Reading: 2025-04-15

Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks by David C. M. Dickson, Mary R. Hardy and Howard R. Waters
Written: David C. M. Dickson, Mary R. Hardy and Howard R. Waters
Started Reading: 2025-04-12

Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson

  • I found out about this book from a friend
  • This quote is what made me want to read the book.

    Sponsors are folks with more organizational capital than bandwidth to deploy that capital

  • I am listening to the book as an Audiobook via Audible
  • Currently on “Operating at Staff: Writing engineering strategy”
  • I am not anywhere near becoming a staff engineer, but exposure to excellence is in general a good thing, and I think that this book will show me what progress as an IC path looks like

Great Founder Theory (2020 Manuscript)
Written: Eric Samo Burja
Started Reading: 2025-04-15

  • The manuscript is available as a PDF on the author’s website

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Written: Dale Carnegie

  • I am listening to the book as an Audiobook via Audible

    © 1936 Dale Carnegie; 1981 Donna Dale Carnegie and Dorothy Carnegie, all rights reserved; 1964 renewed Donna Dale Carnegie and Dorothy Carnegie (P)1988 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. SOUNDIDEAS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  • I am currently on Chapter 1 : “If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive”