What I read in December 2023:

December was slow for me:

The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike. I liked it - felt there was meet to it.

The Lean Startup. I find the core insight (build, test, learn) like a mantra and I wish I had read it many times over the years. But I am very negative about the package. See more here

Some light, incomplete re-listening:

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It’s even better at 1.5x or 2x - it’s insanely well written for fast reading and it’s a lot of laugh out loud fun. Now, Stephenson, which I really love to read, has the same failing to this day: even though he broke out of cyberpunk, he did not move away enough from its core dystopian worldview so if you read Snow Crash from 1992 and Fall from 2019, the BleakAmerica is pretty much the same in both.

A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

Started

Rendezvous with Rama (inspired by @Zac Henderson - I have not read it in decades; it was great but I don’t think I will be re-reading later novels)

Elephant in the Brain (important book; not much new for me as I have been trying to stare at my brain for a few decades now and I have been following Hansen; I no longer “flex” that I think better because I know all about the biases

The Leader’s Guide