A evolving project with the main goal of chronologically documenting the books I've read. The plan is to start out small and basic, get down a solid design, and slowly integrate new features with whatever technologies I'd like to learn.
Partially inspired by Drew Roper's annual music collection.
- Static HTML site with a solid design.
- Dynamically generated site from a JSON file.
- Basic API serving static data (Rails or Express).
- Refactor SCSS to remove all !important tags.
- RESTful API with persistent data in Postgres.
- Client side admin with authentication.
- ???
- Use HTML5 semantic elements when appropriate.
- Follow RSCSS.
- Follow the AirBnB JS style guide.
- Use Colors.cc for improved colors.
- Shadow of the Hedgemon — Orson Scott Card
- The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy — William B. Irving
- The Republic — Plato (Supposedly the best of Plato's works, we all talk about him but I've never actually read anything by him so decided to go for it)
- Eloquent Javascript — Marijn Haverbeke
- The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
- Trust Me, I'm Lying — Ryan Holiday
- The Signal and the Noise — Nate Silver
- The Singularity is Near — Ray Kurzweil
- A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
- Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace (This is a long yet fascinating read)
- Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
- The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg
- Pulp — Charles Bukowski
- 1984 — George Orwell
- A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
- The Happiness of Pursuit — Shimon Edelman
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig (One of my favorite ever)
- The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt (Also top 3 material)
- Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes (Terrifyingly emotional book, very touching)
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia — Mohsin Hamid
- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
- The Art of War — Sun Tzu
- Vagabonding — Rolf Potts
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki — Haruki Murakami
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (Worth reading for the last few dozen pages alone, although the whole thing is fantastic)
- Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card (Arguably a better book than the already fantastic Ender's Game)
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Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (I've read this book many, many times, but am now going through the whole series)
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Principia Discordia — Malaclypse the Younger (Very strange and humorous read)
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
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Essentialism — Greg McKeown
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Ready Player One — Ernest Cline
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz
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Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain
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Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell (I've read a lot of criticism about Gladwell online, but decided to read Outliers to judge for myself. It was a great read! Not as much reliance on anecdotal evidence as criticizers had claimed)
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The Martian — Andy Weird
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Zero to One — Peter Thiel
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Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
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Growth Hacker Marketing — Ryan Holiday
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
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The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Lee