2023 Log

Books

February Writing Effective Use Cases Alistair Cockburn 🏆
March Crossroads Jonathan Franzen ✔️
March Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee didn’t finish
May The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes ✔️
May The Courage to be Disliked Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga ✔️
June Quack this Way (reread) David Foster Wallace, Bryan Gardner 🔥
June The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods A. G. Sertillanges ✔️ (skimmed)


Articles

Month Title Author Rating
January Membership Works Craig Mod ✔️
January How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking Joshua Rothman 🔥
January The Getty’s Family Trust Issues Evan Osnos ✔️
January Tapestry - Pitckfork Review Jenn Pelly 🔥
January A Place for Fire - Paris Review Elisa Gabbert ✔️
February Requirements Engineering as a Success Factor in Software Projects Hubert Hofmann, Franz Lehner ✔️
February APIs as Ladders sbensu ✔️
February We’ve Lost the Plot Megan Garber ✔️
March The Mystery Millionaire of Gage Park Edward Robert McClelland ✔️
March Anatomy of an Amazon 6-pager Jesse Freeman ✔️
March The Fight Over Penn Station and Madison Square Garden William Finnegan ✔️
March Why We Never Have Enough Time Parul Sehgal ✔️
March Compress to Impress Remains of the Day ✔️
April Here be Sermons Melting Asphalt ✔️
April The universal unit of work is a decision Deliberate Internet ✔️
May The End of the English Major The New Yorker ✔️
May This Year, Try Organizing Your Life Like a Monk Tish Harrison Warren ✔️
June Your Family: Past, Present, and Future Wait But Why ✔️
June Our Tone of Voice Monzo Banking ✔️
June Graduates, My Generation Wrecked So Much That’s Precious. How Can I Offer You Advice? Margaret Renkl ✔️
June School is Not Enough Simon Sarris 🔥
June Jazz Kissa 2015 — 2019: An Interview with Katsumasa Kusunose Hi-Fi For Low Lifes ✔️
June Kevin Kelly and the Golden Age of World Travel On Margins ✔️
June Corner Club Cathedral Cocoon Harpers Magazine 🔥
June The End of the English Major The New Yorker ✔️
August Facilitating Remote Workshops UX Collective ✔️
August The Hitchens Transcript The Portland Monthly ✔️
August The Mysteries of Pittsburgh The New Yorker ✔️
August How to Live a Happy Life, From a Leading Atheist The New York Times ✔️
August How the Authors of the Bible Spun Victory from Defeat The New Yorker ✔️
August No Good Alone internet princess ✔️
September How to do Strategic Planning like a Futurist Harvard Business Review ✔️
September How to Book Club Fallible Pieces ✔️
October Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty The New Yorker ✔️
November Doing a Job Government Leaders ✔️
November The Bluffer’s Guide to the Mythical Man Myth Codemanship’s Blog ✔️
November Who do people use VBA? Sancarn.Github.io ✔️
November How Agile Works Codemanship’s Blog ✔️
November Compliments Ludicity ✔️
November Writing Documentation for your Home Luke Hsiao ✔️
November Simplifying Complexity (blog in general) I’d Rather Be Writing 🏆
November Reading Well The Map is Mostly Water ✔️
November Life is Short Paul Graham 🔥
November There’s No Speed Limit Derek Sivers ✔️
November Rest in Motion Minding Our Way ✔️
December The American Scholar American Scholar 🏆
December How the Poet Christian The New Yorker 🔥
December How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker The New Yorker 🔥
December My Favorite Change Management Approach DAGWork’s Substack ✔️
December Keep Your Identity Small Paul Graham ✔️


Movies

Month Title Director Rating
January She Said Maria Schrader ✔️
January Entrapment Jon Amiel ✔️
January Pinocchio Guillermo del Toro ✔️
January The Fabelmans Steven Spielberg 🔥
January Election Alexander Payne 🔥
January Decision to Leave Park Chan-wook ✔️
January The Swimmers Sally El Hosaini ✔️
January The Good Nurse Tobias Lindholm ✔️
February Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund ✔️
February After Yang Kogonada ✔️
February Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh 🔥
February Aftersun Charlotte Wells 🏆
February Vengeance B.J. Novak ✔️
February TÁR Todd Field ✔️
February If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins ✔️
February Gravity Alfonson Cuarón 🔥
March A Man Called Otto Marc Forster ✔️
March The Florida Project Sean Baker ✔️
April Oslo, August 31st Joachim Trier 🔥
April Four Hours at the Capitol Jamie Roberts ✔️
May Aftersun (rewatch) Charlotte Wells 🏆
May In Bruges Martin McDonagh ✔️
May Still Davis Guggenheim ✔️
May Rye Lane Raine Allen-Miller 🔥
May Air Ben Affleck 🔥
May 13 Lives Ron Howard ✔️
June Almost Famous Cameron Crowe ✔️
July A Hidden Life Terrence Malick 🔥
July Before Sunrise Richard Linklater 🔥
August Race Stephen Hopkins ✔️
September The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Wes Anderson ✔️
October Before Sunset Richard Linklater 🏆
October Stand By Me Rob Reiner ✔️
November The Holdovers Alexander Payne 🔥
November Sideways Alexander Payne 🔥
December Moonstruck (rewatch) Norman Jewison 🔥
December Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan 🏆
December The Eight Mountains Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch 🔥


Series

Month Title Director Rating
January The Dropout Hulu ✔️
January Pepsi, Where’s My Jet Netflix ✔️
January Normal People Hulu 🔥
March The Last of Us HBO ✔️ (Episode 3 🏆)
April Q: Into the Storm HBO ✔️
May White Lotus - Season 1 HBO ✔️
May Marvelous Mrs. Masiel - Season 5 HBO 🏆
May The Great - Season 3 Hulu ✔️
June Shrinking - Season 1 Apple TV ✔️
July Platonic - Season 1 Apple TV ✔️
October Sex Education - Season 4 Netflix 🏆


Podcasts

Month Title Creator Rating
January What Alcohol Does to your Body, Brain and Health Huberman Lab ✔️
February Solving Problems Waking Up ✔️
May Questioning Christianity with Tim Keller Tim Keller in progress
September #404: David Perell — Surrender To Your True Nature on Apple Podcasts The Danny Miranda Podcast 🔥
October Derek Sivers: No Wasted Words How I write ✔️