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
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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 )