Books I'm reading or have read, with synthesis progress. Tracks where I left off so I can pick up again. | Book | Author | Status | Last Activity | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | | [[Book Inventory/Our Final Invention\|Our Final Invention]] | James Barrat | Ch 9 of ~15 | 2026-03-20 | | [[Book Inventory/Time Warrior\|Time Warrior]] | Steve Chandler | Ch 19 of ~100 | ~2026-02-28 | | [[Book Inventory/Pragma\|Pragma]] | Sebastian Marshall | ✅ Complete (135 notes across 27 chapters) | 2026-05-23 | | [[Book Inventory/Gateless\|Gateless]] | Sebastian Marshall, Kai Zau | Complete (40 notes, 5 skills) | 2026-04-13 | | [[Book Inventory/Progression\|Progression]] | Sebastian Marshall | In progress (9/25 essays, 64 notes; Section I done) | 2026-06-03 | | [[Book Inventory/Building a Second Brain\|Building a Second Brain]] | Tiago Forte | 14+ sections | 2026-03-22 | | [[Book Inventory/The PARA Method\|The PARA Method]] | Tiago Forte | Ch 1 synthesized | 2026-03-22 | | [[Book Inventory/Site Reliability Engineering\|Site Reliability Engineering]] | Beyer, Jones, Petoff, Murphy (eds.) | ✅ Complete (Ch 1-34, 168 notes) | 2026-05-27 | | [[Book Inventory/The Fasting for Survival Method\|The Fasting for Survival Method]] | Dr. Pradip Jamnadas | Complete (12/12) | 2026-03-08 | | [[Book Inventory/The Price of Tomorrow\|The Price of Tomorrow]] | Jeff Booth | Ch 1 (p1-15/217, 3 notes) | 2026-03-26 | | [[Book Inventory/Pragmatic Thinking and Learning\|Pragmatic Thinking and Learning]] | Andy Hunt | Extensive (40+ notes) | 2026-03-26 | | [[Book Inventory/Code Simplicity\|Code Simplicity]] | Max Kanat-Alexander | Complete (8/8 chapters, 7 notes) | 2026-03-30 | | [[Book Inventory/The Systems Thinker\|The Systems Thinker]] | Albert Rutherford | Intro + Ch 1 synthesized (2 notes) | 2026-03-27 | | [[Book Inventory/Superintelligence\|Superintelligence]] | Nick Bostrom | Fable + Preface synthesized (1 note) | 2026-03-27 | | [[Book Inventory/The Art of Strategy\|The Art of Strategy]] | Dixit, Nalebuff | Preface + Intro summarized (0 notes) | 2026-03-27 | | [[Book Inventory/System Design Interview\|System Design Interview]] | Alex Xu | Foreword + Ch 1-2 synthesized (3 notes) | 2026-03-27 | | [[Book Inventory/Chaos Engineering\|Chaos Engineering]] | Casey Rosenthal, Nora Jones | Intro + Ch 1-4 (11 notes) | 2026-03-27 | | [[Book Inventory/Full Catastrophe Living\|Full Catastrophe Living]] | Jon Kabat-Zinn | Overview + Intro synthesized | 2026-01-28 | | [[Book Inventory/The Power of Now\|The Power of Now]] | Eckhart Tolle | Synthesized (11 notes, topic-extracted) | 2026-02-01 | | [[Book Inventory/Dictionary of Applied Math for Engineers and Scientists\|Dictionary of Applied Math for Engineers and Scientists]] | Emma Previato (ed.) | Not started (reference) | 2026-04-09 | | [[Book Inventory/Advice on Upskilling\|Advice on Upskilling]] | Justin Skycak | In progress | 2026-04-12 | | [[Book Inventory/Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers\|Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers]] | Michael Schrenk | Ch 1 / 31 (3 notes) | 2026-04-14 | | [[Book Inventory/Understanding Distributed Systems\|Understanding Distributed Systems]] | Roberto Vitillo | Ch 1–2 / 34 (6 notes) | 2026-04-15 | | [[Book Inventory/Claude Mythos Preview System Card\|Claude Mythos Preview System Card]] | Anthropic | Complete (3 notes) | 2026-04-14 | | [[Book Inventory/Infrastructure as Code\|Infrastructure as Code (3rd ed.)]] | Kief Morris | Not started | 2026-04-17 | | [[Book Inventory/Terraform Up and Running\|Terraform: Up and Running (3rd ed.)]] | Yevgeniy Brikman | In Progress (55%, 0 notes) | 2026-04-17 | | [[Book Inventory/Puppet Best Practices\|Puppet Best Practices]] | Chris Barbour, Jo Rhett | Not started | 2026-04-17 | | [[Book Inventory/Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers\|Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers]] | David Sandilands | Not started | 2026-04-17 | | [[Book Inventory/Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures\|Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures]] | Tod Golding | Not started | 2026-04-17 | | [[Book Inventory/Effective Multi-Tenant Distributed Systems\|Effective Multi-Tenant Distributed Systems]] | Chad Carson, Sean Suchter | Not started (75pp report) | 2026-04-17 | | [[Book Inventory/Domain-Driven Rails\|Domain-Driven Rails]] | Robert Pankowecki & Arkency Team | Complete (272pp, 54 notes) | 2026-04-26 | | [[Book Inventory/CloudFormation User Guide\|CloudFormation User Guide]] | Amazon Web Services | Clusters 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 done (20 notes, reference, 1442pp) | 2026-04-27 | | [[Book Inventory/The Programmer's Guide to a Sane Workweek\|The Programmer's Guide to a Sane Workweek]] | Itamar Turner-Trauring | Not started (254pp, v1.3.0) | 2026-04-28 | | [[Book Inventory/The Control Heuristic\|The Control Heuristic]] | Luca Dellanna | Complete (350pp, 52 notes) | 2026-04-30 | | [[Book Inventory/Solutions for Adults with Asperger Syndrome\|Solutions for Adults with Asperger Syndrome]] | Juanita P. Lovett, Ph.D. | Front Matter + Ch 1 complete (14 notes) | 2026-05-10 | | [[Book Inventory/Candlestick and Volatility Range\|Candlestick and Volatility Range]] | Jiego Mojica | Complete (26 notes, all 6 sections) | 2026-05-12 | | [[Book Inventory/Web Operations\|Web Operations]] | Allspaw & Robbins (eds.) | ✅ Complete (17 chapters, 228 notes) | 2026-06-01 | ## Future Reading *Brian Roemmele recommendations (April 2025)* | Book | Author | Priority | |------|--------|----------| | [[Book Inventory/The Borrowed Mind - John Nosta\|The Borrowed Mind]] | John Nosta | High | | [[Book Inventory/Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman\|Four Thousand Weeks]] | Oliver Burkeman | High | | [[Book Inventory/Meditations for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman\|Meditations for Mortals]] | Oliver Burkeman | Medium-High | | [[Book Inventory/The 12 Week Year - Brian Moran\|The 12 Week Year]] | Brian P. Moran | Medium | | [[Book Inventory/The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell\|The Hero with a Thousand Faces]] | Joseph Campbell | Medium |