What is this?

For a thorough rundown, check out my post on the matter.

Otherwise, the tldr; is that I have automated programs monitoring my desktop pdf-reader and audible library nightly, updating this page with each book’s current status and recent progress.

Why? I was inspired by Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf, but I wanted to expand on the idea. Finished books say something about what you know, books in progress say how you’re spending your time, and unopened books say something about your ambitions – where you’re headed, one might argue, if the breadth of finished books and the pace of those in progress supports your case.

Legend

• In-Progress
• Unopened
• Finished

Books

• Algorithms, Fourth Edition

  By Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

  0/969 pages read

  To accompany Princeton's Algorithms course (on Coursera), which I'm taking as a refresher since undergrad (Coursera course info)

• Introduction to Linear Algebra, 5th Edition

  By Gilbert Strang

  0/585 pages read

  Currently following MITOCW's 2005 18.06 lecture series to refresh on linalg (now 9 years since I took it in undergrad) (My notes)

• The Iliad

  By Homer

  Finished

  Lattimore translation (more info on Lattimore vs others)

• Atomic Habits

  By James Clear

  Finished

• Bad Blood

  By John Carreyrou

  Finished

• Beyond Good and Evil

  By Friedrich Nietzsche

  Finished

• Blood Meridian

  By Cormac McCarthy

  Finished

• Caffeine

  By Michael Pollan

  Finished

• Chaos

  By James Gleick

  Finished

• Chaos

  By Tom O'Neill

  Finished

• Elon Musk

  By Ashlee Vance

  Finished

• Elon Musk

  By Walter Isaacson

  Finished

• How Innovation Works

  By Matt Ridley

  Finished

• How the Internet Happened

  By Brian McCullough

  Finished

• How to Change Your Mind

  By Michael Pollan

  Finished

• Humble Pie

  By Gordon Ramsay

  Finished

• Notes from Underground and The Gambler

  By Constance Garnett - translator

  Finished

• Paper Belt on Fire

  By Michael Gibson

  Finished

• Spring Snow

  By Yukio Mishima

  0/871 minutes listened

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

  By Richard P. Feynman

  Finished

• The Blank Slate

  By Steven Pinker

  Finished

• The Dyslexic Advantage

  By Brock l. Eide

  Finished

• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

  By Tom Wolfe

  Finished

• The Everything Store

  By Brad Stone

  Finished

• The Information

  By James Gleick

  Finished

• The Lean Startup

  By Eric Ries

  Finished

• The Lessons of History

  By Will

  Finished

• The Machiavellians

  By James Burnham

  Finished

• The Master and Margarita

  By Mikhail Bulgakov

  Finished

• The Meaning of it All

  By Richard P. Feynman

  Finished

• The Minimalist Entrepreneur

  By Sahil Lavingia

  Finished

• The Red Queen

  By Matt Ridley

  Finished

• The Selfish Gene

  By Richard Dawkins

  Finished

• Tools of Titans

  By Tim Ferriss

  Finished

• Turing's Cathedral

  By George Dyson

  0/940 minutes listened

• When Einstein Walked with Gödel

  By Jim Holt

  Finished

• Zero to One

  By Peter Thiel

  Finished