I love reading and learning. I'm putting this page together to keep track of all my knowledge sources.

2023 Year of the Rabbit

Currently reading, in progress

• Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully - started October 9th
• Designing Your Life - started March 5th
• The Lean Startup - started November 4th
• Scarcity Brain - Fix your craving mindset and rewire your habits to thrive with enough - started October 26th

In Queue

• Metamorphosis
• Night in Tehran
• The War Of Art: Break Through Blocks And Win Your Inner Creative Battles
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
• The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That can sink a Startup - started August 31st
• Enders Game
• King Killer - Name of the wind
• Stormlight Archive
• Misborn
• The Burning - Fires of Vengence
• The Wheel of Time

Business

• Antifragile - started May 5th, finished May 14th
• The Creative Act - started February 11th, finished February 19th
• Crossing the Chasm - started April 23rd, finished October 3rd
• The Fish that ate the Whale - started January 27th, finished February 2nd
• Hackers and Painters - started October 19th, finished October 30th
• Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It - started April 20th, finished May 9th
• The Power of Moments - started April 5th, finished April 19th
• Shoe Dog - started January 13th, finished January 28th
• Steal Like An Artist Trilogy - started February 11th, finished February 26th

Fiction

• American Rust - started May 23rd, finished June 1st
• As I Lay Dying - started June 13th, finished June 16th
• The Moviegoer - started February 2nd, finished February 4th
• The Son - started May 15th, finished May 23rd

Psychology

• Attached - started January 9th, finished January 16th
• Mistakes Were Made - started March 8th, finished March 21st
• The Power of Regret - started January 9th, finished January 19th

Non-Fiction

• Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life - started March 30th, finish April 5th
• Endurance - started February 3rd, finished February 14th
• The Education of a Coach - started October 1st, finished October 19th
• Endure - Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance - started September 23rd, finished October 7th
• Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World - started September 14th, finished September 27th
• Fragile Power: Why Having Everything Is Never Enough; Lessons from Treating the Wealthy and Famous - started June 18th, finished July 19th
• Leadership in Turbulent Times - started August 30th, finished September 27th
• Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness - started March 30th, finished April 5th
• Mastery - started June 24th, finished September 19th
• Never Finished - started February 28th, finished March 9th
• Origin Story - started April 5th, finished May 5th
• The Tiger - started June 4th, finished June 12th
• The Dawn's Early Light - started June 17th, finished June 24th
• Tough Jews - started February 16th, finished March 1st

Self-help

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - started July 11th, finished October 16th
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - started January 19th, finished February 2nd
• The Comfort Crisis - started December 29th, finished January 13th
• Dating Essentials for Men - started January 17th, finished April 3rd
• Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier - started September 16th, October 26th
• The Mountain Is You - started October 11th, finished October 16th

2022 Year of the Tiger

Abandoned

• Superintelligence - started May 30th, quit November 16th. Did not like lists of AI content, knowledge was tech focused and out of date.

Biography

• Left For Dead: My Journey Home From Everest - started November 25th, finished November 27th

Business

• Average is Over - Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation - started July 20th, finished August 4th
• The End of the World Is Just the Beginning - started Sept 21, finished October 13th
• Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - started February 28th, finished March 12th
• Principals for Dealing with the Changing World Order - started June 22nd, finished Sept 7
• The Score Takes Care of Itself - started October 13th, finished October 15th
• Think Again - started October 21st, finished October 28th
• Think Like A Rocket Scientist - started February 14th, finished 28th
• Turn the Ship Around - started November 2nd, finished November 7th

Communication

• Am I Making Myself Clear - started January 28th, finished February 2nd

Fiction

• A Man at Arms - started August 28th, finished August 30th
• The Alchemist - started March 15th, finished March 16th
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - started November 14th, finished November 17th
• Ask the Dust - Started Sept 25th, finished Sept 28th
• Dune - started February 4th, finished February 26th
• Fahrenheit 451 - Started January 27th, finished January 29th
• The Harder They Fall - started November 7th, finished November 14th
• The Remains of the Day - started May 14th, finished May 30th
• The Road To Los Angeles - started November 3rd, finished November 14th
• The Trial - started February 27th, finished March 2nd
• What Makes Sammy Run - started March 2nd, finished March 18th

Consciousness & Philosophy

• Amusing Ourselves to Death - started October 28th, finished November 2nd
• Asylum - started November 18th, finished November 22nd
• But What If We're Wrong? - started November 17th, finished December 27th
• Discipline is Destiny - started October 6th, finished October 15th
• How to Live - or - A Life of Montaigne - started November 28th, finished January 9th
• Inner Engineering - started May 15th, finished June 28th
• Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny - started May 30th, finished July 6th
• Letters from a Stoic - started October 16th, finished October 21st
• On Solitude - started November 22nd, finished November 25th
• The Wilderness Hunter - started December 2nd, finished December 8th
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - started October 16th, finished November 4th

Psychology

• We have met the enemy - started August 7th, finished August 28th

Self-Help

• Better Than Good - Started May 1st, finished May 14th
• How to Stay Motivated - Started April 22nd, finished April 30th
• Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be - started December 8th, finished January 2nd
• The Second Mountain - Started Sept 7, finished Sept 21
• Tiny Beautiful Things - Started July 8th, finished August 2nd.
• Yes To Life - started March 16th, finished March 18th

Start ups

• Zero to One - Started April 14th, finished April 30th

2021 Year of the Ox

Partly completed, abandoned

• Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence - started August 18th, 2020
• The Gulag Archipelago - started December 20th

Completed books below

Biography

• Greenlights - Started August 25th, finished September 15th
• Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman - started January 28th, completed February 11th
• What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character - started February 11th, completed February 15th
• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars - started October 4th, finished November 1st

Business

• Courage is Calling - started November 29th, finished December 1st
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About it - started March 11st, completed March 28th
• This Is Marketing - started January 20th, completed January 28th
• The Innovators Dilemma - Started December 27th, finished January 5th, 2022

History

• Sapiens - started January 6th, completed January 20th

Meditation

• The Places That Scare You - started July 5th, finished August 15th
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times - started March 28th, completed April 1st

Politics

• The Weather Makers

Psychology

• Factfulness - started March 17th, finished March 22nd
• The Paradox of Choice - started May 25th, finished June 10th

Science

• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Started July 24th, finished August 25th
• The Black Swan - started November 29th, finished December 12th
• The Body - Started July 14th, finished July 29th

Self-help

• Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart - 30 True Things You Need to Know Now - started January 2nd, completed January 6th

Therapy

• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt - started

2020

I'm trying something new this year. I'm beginning to track when I start and finish a book in an attempt to track my 2020 goals. I had planned to read 40 books and listen to 40 audible books, but that plan has been revised to read/listen to 4 books (audible, physical, or kindle) a month. Based on that, the goal is 48 books.

Completed books below

Biographies

• Can't Hurt Me - started December 3rd, completed December 11th 
• Elon Musk (biography) - Started June 26th, completed July 14th

Business and Leadership

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - started February 25th, completed March 15th
• Billion Dollar Lessons - Started July 25th, completed August 14th
• Black Box Thinking - started January 4th, completed April 12th
• Blue Ocean Strategy - started March 1st, completed March 29th
• Call Sign Chaos - Started May 22nd, completed June 7th
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work - Started June 1st, completed June 21st
• Delivering Happiness - started November 29th, completed December 3rd
• The Everything Store - started Sept 4th, completed September 18th
• Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone - started December 20th, completed December 26th
• Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual - Started April 2nd, completed April 14th
• Managing Oneself - started December 20th, completed December 20th
• Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models - started February 9th, completed February 24th
• Radical Candor - Started June 7th, completed June 26th
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - started December 23rd 2019, completed January 11th
• The Infinite Game - Started May 10th, completed May 22nd
• Sell More Faster - Started April 13th, completed July 22nd
• Thinking In Bets - started March 15th, completed March 29th
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer - started September 5th, completed October 26th
• The Upstarts - started October 10th, completed October 30th
• Upstream: The quest to solve problems before they happen - Started June 22nd, completed July 4th
• What you do is who you are - started January 1st, completed January 15th (estimated)

Fiction

• Gates of Fire - started April 20th, completed May 11th
• Slaughterhouse 5 - started October 27th, completed November 12th

Investing

• Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth you should have learned in school - Started July 4th, Completed July 12th
• The Book on Rental Property Investing - Started August 16th, completed August 23rd

Philosophy

• The Art of Power - Started December 12th, completed January 1st
• Essentialism - started October 31st, completed November 11th
• How to Keep your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management - Started March 28th, completed June 1st
• Re-Reading Alan Watts: Out of your mind
• The Wisdom of Insecurity - started October 7th, completed October 10th
• Status Anxiety - started February 16th, completed January 25th
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Started April 14th, finished May 2nd

Psychology

• A Lot of People Are Saying - started December 27th, completed January 1st - counting towards 2020 since it was 99% done in that year.
• As A Man Thinketh - started November 12th, completed November 24th
• Fooled by Randomness - started May 2nd
• The Happiness Hypothesis - started January 21, completed February 16th
• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It - started February 25th, completed March 1st
• Mindset: The Psychology of Success - started January 10th, completed January 30th
• Nudge - Started July 14th, completed July 25th
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - started December 11th, completed December 20th
• Predictable Irrational - Started July 23rd, completed August 16th

Productivity

• Atomic Habits - started February 5th, completed February 9th
• The Practice - started November 24th, completed December 4th
• Start Finishing: How to go from an idea to Done - started December 22 2019, completed January 4th

Science

• The Order of Time - Started August 23rd, completed September 4th

Self Help / Health

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - started November 13th, completed November 29th.
• Breath - started August 13th, completed August 16th
• Everything is Figureoutable - Started May 11th, completed March 23rd
• The Happiness Trap - started December 5th, completed December 19th
• The Way of the Ice Man - started August 16th, completed August 16th

Writing

• The Elements of Style - started February 3rd, Completed July 12th

2019

Business / Leadership

• Daring Greatly
• Dare To Lead
• The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
• The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
• What got you here won't get you there

Entrepreneurship

• The Dip

Self-Development

• Re-read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Un-F*ck yourself
• Getting Things Done
• StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Stillness is the key

Philosophy

• In my own way
• Out of Your Mind
• Discourses: Complete Books 1-4

Psychology

• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
• Introducing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Indistractable

Technology

Architecture

• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
• Clean Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Domain Driven Design

2018

Business / Leadership

• Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
• It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
• The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating a Culture that Matters
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Communication

• Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Philosophy

• The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 1

Programming / Computing

• Learning OpenCV3
• Linux Networking Cookbook
• Computer Networks 5th By Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
• Practical Linux Security Cookbook

Psychology

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Science Fiction

• Brave New World
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

2017

Business / Leadership

• Extreme Ownership - How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
• 48 Laws of Power
• Start with Why
• The Tipping Point
• Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions
• The Art of Possibility - Transforming Professional and Personal Life
• High Performance Habits - How Extraordinary People Become That Way
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
• Who Moved My Cheese

Self-Development

• The War of Art - Winning the Inner Creative Battle
• Deep Work - Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism
• The Gifts of Imperfection
• You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Philosophy

I've recently found stoicism to hold some powerful truths in my life. I highly suggest any take a read into this philosophy because it has influenced me so much in this last year.

• Meditations - journal readings of Marcus Aurelius
• The Obstacle Is the Way - The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
• The Daily Stoic 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Programming / Computing

• Programming Pheonix
• Metaprogramming Elixir
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook
• Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good - Fred Hebert

Psychology / Human Nature

• Tribes - We Need You To Lead Us
• Peak Performance
• Quiet - The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

2016

Business / Leadership

• Smarter Faster Better - The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
• The Art of War (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition)

Communication

• The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over
• Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It

Programming / Computing

• Elixir in Action
• Erlang and OTP in Action

Self Development

• Ego Is the Enemy
• The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
• The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Social Science

• Outliers: The Story of Success

Psychology

• The Power of Habit - Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Grit - The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Programming / Computing

• Programming Elixir
• Programming Pheonix
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook

2015 and earlier

Communication

• Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

Design

• The Design of Every Day Things - Donald Norman

Product Development

• Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You - John Warrillow
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-forming Products - Nir Eyal
• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
• Leadership and Self-Deception - The Arbinger Institute
• A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• Failing Forward - John Maxwell
• Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung

Psychology

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Medical

• Athletic Body in Balance

Technical Books

• Programming Elixir
• Programming Phoenix
• Exercises for programmers
• Ruby on Rails 4.0 Guide - Stefan Wintermeyer
• You Dont Know JavaScript - Kyle Simpson
• CSS and Documents - Eric Mayer
• The Little Redis Book - Karl Seguin
• CouchDB - The Definitive Guide - Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt, Noah Slater
• Practices of an Agile Developer - Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
• Ship It - Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr
• Red Book, Readings in Database Systems
• Distributed systems for fun and profit
• Instant Nginx Starter
• Nginx
• Elixir Cookbook
• Postgres 9 Administration Cookbook
• Pro Puppet

Financials

• The Tao of Warren Buffet - Mary Buffet
• Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To - Jack Welch
• Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business - Peter Lynch
• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
• The Richest Man in Babylon - George Clason
• Think and Grow Rich! - Napoleon Hill

Reading in School

• To Kill A Mockingbird
• The Great Gatsby
• 1984
• Of Mice and Men
• A Midsummers Night's Dream
• Animal Farm
• Macbeth
• Lord of the Flies
• Hamlet
• Frankenstein

Learning Web Sites

I read quite a bit, as well as watching screen or web casts, instructional videos, or just interesting talks usually from TED or Ignite.

Sites

• RailsCasts (I miss Ryan Bates. If you see him, tell him I still think he's awesome.)
• Ruby Tapas
• Code School
• Ruby5
• Go By Example
• Codeschool
• ElixirSchool

TED Talks

Find my TED profile here.

Etc