Reading Log

This is a broad summary of what I've been reading lately. It's updated irregularly throughout the year and it's not a fully exhaustive list. My eventual goal is to make this page something like a commonplace book. For now, it's just a list of fun or thought-provoking reads.

2025

• A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark
• The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
• Principle Doctrines by Epicurus (Robert Drew Hicks Translation)
• Pastoralia by George Saunders
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
• AI snake oil : what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference by Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor

2024

• The Need to be Whole by Wendell Berry
• How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino
• Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

2023

• Film Studies: An Introduction by Ed Sikov
• Calypso by David Sedaris
• How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily Austin
• Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
• Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki

Other Links & Readings

Below is a completely unordered list of links to interesting readings/websites.

• Rediscovering the Small Web
• Minimal Computing
• Rich User Experience, UX, and Desktopization of War
• Minimalism(computing) - Wikipedia
• Processing
• Raspberry Pi Foundation
• PICO-8 Fantasy Console
• TIC-80 Fantasy Computer
• Angband
• Nethack