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Tyler Cipriani

Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation; keeps a public log of every book he reads at tylercipriani.com.

6 books on the record · 19 Mar 2022 – 7 Jun 2022

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker

Overall, I'm still firmly on team Strunk and White. But this was a pretty damned entertaining grammar book.

on tylercipriani.com · 7 Jun 2022

liked it

An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson

I read this book because I read Will Larson's blog and newsletter and they're frequent sources of management insight. This book reads like a collection of blog posts with smooth transitions.

on tylercipriani.com · 22 May 2022

mixed on it

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

I stuck it out to the end for a deus ex machina and that was some bullshit. This book would have been a perfect short story about pizza delivery.

on tylercipriani.com · 13 May 2022

mixed on it

Breath by James Nestor

Anyway, the book has compelling parts, but hurts its own arguments with sloppy pseudo-science.

on tylercipriani.com · 21 Apr 2022

liked it

Masters of Doom by David Kushner

Carmack is a legend to anyone who writes software, and the book offers an unflinching portrait.

on tylercipriani.com · 19 Mar 2022

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Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

The book Moonwalking with Einstein explores humans' relationship to memory, our ideas of knowledge, and how that's shifted over time. But it begins with an exploration of competitive memorization and the techniques used by memory champions.

on tylercipriani.com · 19 Mar 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.