Frank finished reading Deep Work by Cal Newport
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you …
Listened to the ebook. Got some good ideas from this, like asking for a deep work budget at work.
Reviews and Comments
Bass player successfully daylighting as an embedded software engineer. I like to learn and that's mainly what my reading is all about.
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Frank finished reading What Made Apollo a Success? by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Content warning Spoilers
Very interesting document, there's a bunch of information in there that is still very relevant for engineering complex systems today. Funny also how it's mentioned in one of the reports that Apollo 13 is going to be doing things differently. Funny how that turned out 😅
Frank finished reading Alien - Alien 3 by Pat Cadigan
It's clear that the story itself is Gibson's, but the writing style is entirely different. I still enjoyed it quite a lot though. I might need to pick up another book by Pat Cadigan in the future
Frank finished reading Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Neal Ford
Very good introduction IMO, reiterated a bunch of things I had already learnt through experience (i.e. mistakes) and gave me a lot of new material that I can use in my job
Frank started reading The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of …
My girlfriend gives the best gifts 😊
Frank finished reading Spinoza by Roger Scruton (Very short introductions)
This book was a bit too hard for me. I can imagine that it's really good of you've had an introductory course in philosophy, but for an amateur it's a bit much. Despite this I was introduced to some interesting ideas so it wasn't wasted effort.
Frank finished reading Sysml Distilled A Brief Guide To The Systems Modeling Language by Lenny Delligatti
Very good introduction to SysML. Doesn't try to do more than introduce the language. Other books try to introduce language, tool and methodology all at the same time. None of that nonsense here. Reading this book made me a better systems engineer and software architect.
Frank finished reading Flowers for Algernon. SF Masterworks. by Daniel Keyes
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind …
Just as I predicted I'm sad now
Frank commented on Flowers for Algernon. SF Masterworks. by Daniel Keyes
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind …
I'm 6 pages in and I already know this book is going to break my heart 💔
Frank finished reading Short Fiction by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick built an enduring literary reputation writing powerful science fiction in the pulp …
Classic Philip K. Dick, stories that have you questioning your sanity
It's amazing that this resource is available for free
5 stars
I really love how this book starts from the fundamentals and builds up to the discrete Fourier transform. The idea of the frequency domain and time domain being different coordinates in the same space is also something that blew my mind. It makes sense when you study it, but it's not something that was immediately obvious to me. I'm definitely going to go on to the next book in the series about filters. 10/10 would recommend.
Frank rated The Mythical man-month: 5 stars
The Mythical man-month by Frederick P. Brooks
Classic text on the human side of software engineering, containing essays on the management of software teams, projections about how …
Frank rated The Montessori Toddler: 4 stars
The Montessori Toddler by Simone Davies
Turn your home into a Montessori home—and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent.
It’s time to change the …
Frank rated The Soul of a New Machine: 4 stars
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles …
Frank rated Calculus Made Easy: 5 stars
Silvanus Phillips Thompson: Calculus Made Easy (1944, Macmillan)
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
The classic book on infinitesimal calculus by Thompson, originally published in 1910; then updated with additional material in 1998 by …