2024 Log

Books

Month Title Author Rating
January My Bright Abyss Christian Wiman 🔥
January Anxious People Fredrik Backman ✔️
February Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge John Willis ✔️
May Eastbound John Willis ✔️
July Endurance Alfred Lansing 🔥
July Endurance Alfred Lansing 🔥
August Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life Arnold Schwarzenegger ✔️


Articles

Month Title Author Rating
January The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI maggieappleton.com ✔️
January Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects indiehackers.com ✔️
January Almost everyone I’ve met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on [Escaping Flatland] (https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz) 🏆
January The Woman Who Spent 500 Days in a Cave The New Yorker 🔥
February Three Waypoints on the Journey The Conscious Leadership Group ✔️
February Baruch Spinoza and the Art of Thinking in Dangerous Times The New Yorker 🔥
March Among the A.I. Doomsayers The New Yorker ✔️
February Stop Postponing Things by Embracing the Mess Deprocastination ✔️
February Systems Reading (resource) Lorin ✔️
February There was no Jesus Aeon ✔️
March Data Science Practice 101: Always Leave An Analysis Paper Trail Counting Stuff ✔️
May Breaking Down Tasks jacobian.org 🔥
May Healthy Documentation vadim kravcenko ✔️
June Obituary for a Quiet Life The Bitter Southerner 🏆
June Be Sincere—Not Serious Every ✔️
June Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization Steve Blank ✔️


Movies

Month Title Director Rating
January Past Lives Celine Song 🏆
January Greyhound Aaron Schneider ✔️
January Dumb Money Craig Gillespie ✔️
February Barbie Greta Gerwig 🔥
February Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet ✔️
February Bank of Dave Chris Foggin ✔️
March American Fiction Cord Jefferson ✔️
March Dream Scenario Kristoffer Borgli ✔️
May Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorcese 🔥
June Hit Man Richard Linkater ✔️
July Challenger Luca Guadagnino 🔥
July The Fall Guy David Leitch ✔️


Series

Month Title Director Rating
February True Detective - Season 4 Nic Pizzolatto ✔️
March Only Murders in the Building - Season 3 Steve Martin; John Hoffman ✔️
May Ripley Steven Zaillian 🏆
June Feabag - Season 2 Phoebe Waller-Bridge 🏆


Podcasts

Month Title Creator Rating
August Practicing Spiritual Discipline as an Act of Resistance Art of Manliness ✔️