Reading
A running list of what I'm reading and watching, with the occasional thought.
Systems
Understanding systems starts with the most battle-tested one of all: the operating system.
A most-recurring visit for anything Linux internals.
My go-to channel for hands-on Linux.
Ideas & growth
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
The Richest Man in Babylon
The most direct, no-fluff framework for financial discipline. Worth reading once in your life.
Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars
One of the most touching novels I've read.
thoughts
Eyes closed, intubated, dark cancer water dripping from Hazel's chest. "A desert blessing, an ocean curse," as Augustus put it. Love, anguish, pain. It shows how a moment that seems trivial can turn positive or negative depending on the circumstance, especially when it might mean losing someone you love.
All the Light We Cannot See
Mistborn trilogy
Barely touched fiction once college apps started, until this. A real page-turner, with allomancy and a universe all its own.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
My favorite series growing up; always has a place in my heart.
The Heroes of Olympus
Riordan's best series yet, but read Percy Jackson first as the build-up.
thoughts
The stretch from the back half of The Mark of Athena into The House of Hades is the best part. How do you survive and escape Tartarus? The more I sit with it, the more love is the core of that survival, not just power and shrewdness.