I love to read. I typically read between 30 and 70 books a year, depending on whether you count comics.
Some of my favorite books include:
- Idlewild by Nick Sagan
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
- Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Takeaways from some books I've read
Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Nonviolent Communication
The Non-Designers Book of Design
Radical Candor
Save The Cat
So You Want To Be A Game Master
The Stranger
Ulysses
Women Fire And Dangerous Things
Takeaways from books I have not read
Moral Stupefaction from Jonathan Haidt's A Righteous Mind
Why Are the Prices So Damn High by Alex Taborrok and Eric Helland
Zero To One
Bloggers I follow
(ordered roughly by how closely I follow them)
Jerry Holkins (Penny Arcade)
Adam Mastroianni (Experimental History)
Scott Alexander (Slate Star Codex, Astral Codex Ten) ( #ssc )
Sam Kriss (Idiot Joy Showland, Numb at the Lodge)
Cory Doctorow (Craphound) ( #doctorow )
James Watson (https://jamesrobertwatson.com/)
Lyz Lenz (Men Yell At Me)
Webcomics I read
(ordered roughly by how closely I follow them)
XKCD ( #xkcd)
Penny Arcade ( #penny-arcade )
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal(SMBC)
Noncanon by Tom McHenry ( #McHenry )