Reading I’m currently reading Showstopper about the development of Windows NT at Microsoft. I’m not reading any fiction at the moment, but the last novel I read was Pachinko which was a unique historical fiction. I like historical fiction because you pick up some bits of history too, and I am especially ignorant of Japanese and Korean history, so it was a good read for me. Listening I recently discovered Polyphia(from macwright.…

Reading I read “Built to Fail”. It’s about all the things that went wrong at the video-rental company Blockbuster. It reminded me of “Bad Blood”, which is a similar book about Theranos. If you’re into business books, this is a good one. Currently, I’m reading “A Gentleman in Moscow”. It’s a bit different from the kind of books I’ve been reading lately, but so far I’m really enjoying it. Listening I found this interview with Peter van Hardenburg, of Ink & Switch, quite interesting.…

Reading I’ve been reading a sci-fi novel by Samuel Delany called “Babel-17”. I’d never heard of the book or the author, but looks like it was nominated for a Hugo. It gives me a “Rendezvous with Rama” vibe, which I also read recently, but that might just be because I know they are from roughly the same era. I also finished reading “The Hot Hand” by Ben Cohen, about the “hot hand” phenomenon in basketball but also about the human tendency to perceive streaks where they may or may not actually exist.…

Reading I’ve not been reading a lot lately, and for some reason a lot of my recent reading seems to have been sci-fi. Well, right now I’m reading yet another sci-fi: Semiosis by Sue Burke. It’s an interesting concept and I’ll probably finish reading it, but at halfway through the book, I’m also not blown away by it. Projects One thought I’ve had about side-projects recently is that I should have long-running projects.…

Diaspora by Greg Egan: Hard sci-fi about quite a few things but mostly centering around the nature of consciousness. Although it is about a number of different big ideas and spans a long, long time, the story gels together really well. A lot of the physics and maths stuff flew over my head, but the plot is followable. Leviathan Wakes(Expanse #1) by James S. A. Corey: First book of the Expanse series.…