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Favorite Books

These are all the books I've 5-starred on Goodreads, by reverse date-of-reading.

  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
  • The Oracle's Queen
  • Hidden Warrior
  • The Bone Doll's Twin
  • Ward
  • Project Hail Mary
  • Pact
  • The Wise Man's Fear
  • The Name of the Wind
  • The Martian
  • Worm
  • A Deepness in the Sky
  • The Fault in Our Stars
  • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
  • Cryptonomicon
  • The Hunger Games
  • Catching Fire
  • On the Road
  • Snow Crash
  • Life Nomadic: How to Travel the World for Less Than You Pay in Rent
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
  • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
  • Kafka on the Shore
  • Kokoro
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
  • Microserfs
  • You Shall Know Our Velocity!
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
  • A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
  • Life of Pi
  • Stargirl
  • Lolita
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
  • Gone with the Wind
  • White Teeth
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Ender’s Game
  • Cat’s Cradle
  • The Cheese Monkeys
  • Ender's Shadow
  • Catch-22
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • Life, the Universe and Everything
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
  • Arrows of the Queen
  • Arrow's Flight
  • Arrow's Fall

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  • Favorite Books

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Jul 3, 2026

2026: we try to make our writing pass as human, to give the appearance of substance and authenticity.

2027?: we try to make our ideas pass as AI-generated, to give the appearance of correctness and consensus.

Mar 24, 2026

Me: Man, I wish we could just automate all that.

Scott: You can't automate everything in life! What would be left? We need to get you a desktop Zen sand garden, so you can practice relaxing.

Me: <looks at automated robotic Zen sand garden whirring on my second desk> uhhh, well...

Oct 8, 2025

Apropos of nothing, early before he's supposed to be awake, Clark (my 3yo) busts in and says, "Dad! Ask Siri how many minutes until the world ends!"

Apr 9, 2021