Re-listening toDeep Work andThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.

Actually readingYDKJS - Scope & Closures fromKyle Simpson.

Listening toEnder's Game on Audible. It's pretty good; I'd recommend it.

the ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

• Spaceman by Mike Massimino: The journey of an astronaut coming from a totally ordinary background. Very inspiring.

• Educated by Tara Westover: Born to survivalists in the mountains, she lived off the grid for the first 17 years of her life. She then began to educate herself, learned enough math and grammar to get accepted by an university. She then travel the world and goes on an adventure that changes her life. I am just at the beginning of the book, but I just can't put the book down.

I'm reading "Where the Crawdad Sings" and "The Power of Habit" right now (I have one Audible and one paper book going at a time). I also keep a thread on twitter with stuff I've currently read with mini-reviews!

Ali Spittel 🐞

@aspittel

Here's a thread with mini reviews of books I've read lately 👇🏻

17:57 PM - 18 May 2019

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TheTerra Ignota series by Ada Palmer. A series of four books with two currently released. I'm reading the third right now and like it quite much. It's an interesting take on Scifi with new social structures and such and not too far in the future.

1. Too Like the Lightning
2. Seven Surrenders
3. The Will to Battle
4. Perhaps the Stars (to be released)

I'm also readingThe Business Value of Developer Relations by@mary_grace because I have to make a social media plan for a dev-rel position I want to start.

I just finished readingThe Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal. It's a sci fi fiction of an alternate universe where a meteorite hits the Earth (Washington, DC specifically) and causes huge climate changes that will make the Earth inhabitable in a few years. The only solution? Colonizing space!
The book features a lot of well-written and brilliant female pilots, computers, physicists and astronauts.

Been in a bit of a crabby mood toward the "traditional" workplace lately, so I've circled back to three of my standbys:

• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work (by J. Fried, D. Heinemeier Hansson)
• Rework (also by J. Fried, D. Heinemeier Hansson)
• Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It (by C. Ressler, J. Thompson)

And since my doctor recently gave me a hard time about my carb'tastic eating habits and sedentary desk job, I'll probably pick up one more title for motivation:

• The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (by M. Inman aka The Oatmeal)

• Listening to"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman

• and readingThe Linux Solution: How to Build and Support Scalable IT Systems using the Power of LINUX by Keith Edmunds

I'm studying-up to be a D&D Dungeon Master for a new campaign I'm doing with my coworkers, and am reading through theDungeon Master's Guide and theCurse of Strahd campaign book.