Finally done with Emperor of Thorns! Series was meh. Still loved the worlds. He ends it pretty well, kinda would rate it as fantasy beach reading for teenage boys.
This weeks reading brought to you by my google recruiter!
"Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job by John Mongan and Noah Suojanen to give you an edge. It's a good book to have in general. Two other books that may be helpful are: "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley - Programming questions that get you thinking outside of the box; and lastly, "Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein: Introduction to Algorithms" or the CLR textbook."
Fun.
I'm finally reading "Our Mathematical Universe." mk
Currently working my way through "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Definitely an interesting spin on Sci-Fi.
I read The Drawing of the 3 in a day (thanks blizzard). I finished Slant Six by Erin Belieu (also thanks blizzard). I'm about half-way through re-reading (for the third-ish time) The Lies of Locke Lamorra by Scott Lynch. I'd absolutely recommend it. I'm revisiting it because I bought it for a person for the holidays and I wanted to remind myself the fun I was getting him into. rinx I bet you would enjoy it tbh. I am still reading Don Quixote and How to be Drawn by Terrance Hayes. All in all, have done quite a bit of reading lately, plan to keep it up. This weekend I got drunk and tried to force people to borrow books from me. I don't think it's particularly endearing to try and push books on people and generally try not to, but I'd like to believe the fact that this was between slurs actually helped with its general inoffensiveness.
Reading "Influence" by Robert Cialdini which is pretty interesting. Trying to apply it to everyday life. There are items in it such as "Commitment" which is a bias towards completing something we have agreed to in the past which is interesting to me as I see it being used regularly in our work processes. The trick to it is that if someone agrees to do something for you, they will almost certainly keep the agreement even if you change what the something is. The power of our subconscious bias overrides our conscious awareness in most cases. I have noticed that being used regularly but never had a name for it. Theres multiple biases that people have that work in similar ways.
I'm still reading Post Captain . The first half of the book - almost exactly - was really slow and frustrating with all sorts of half-ass romance BS. When they finally got back on the water, it was great. I guess you could also count the research papers I read tonight and their big juicy titles. That was a crazy departure from anything I ever do.
Just started "Born to Run" by Chris Mcdougall. I'm fairly sure the author is a bit inclined to exaggeration, but other then that it's a fantastic read.
Some light pop-history from Erik Larson, who always delivers. Widely praised as one of the best books of 2015 but I'm just now getting to it.