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Things I might read in 2024.

Now extended into 2025.

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard (translator) - The Little Prince
  • (Translation by) Sam Hamill - Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems From the Chinese
  • Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator) - Convenience Store Woman (via)
  • Jorge Luis Borges - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (in Labyrinths)/ printed (via)
  • Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (via)
  • William Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker/ audio, go to 12m35s to skip past the introduction spoilers
  • The Heart of Innovation: A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand/ audio (via)
  • Peter D. Kaufman - Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
  • Lia A. DiBello - Expertise in Business: Evolving with a Changing World (in The Oxford Handbook of Expertise) (via)
  • Joël Glenn Brenner - The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
  • Elad Gil - High Growth Handbook/ audio
  • W. Edwards Deming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education/ audio
  • W. Edwards Deming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education/ the PDF or ebook
  • Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland/ including the posts I SingleFile'd
  • the relevant-looking posts on benkuhn.net/posts
  • Commoncog Case Library Beta
  • Keith J. Cunningham - The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board/ audio
  • Keith J. Cunningham - The 4-Day MBA/ video
  • Cedric Chin's summary of 7 Powers
  • Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura - Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony
  • Nomad Investment Partnership Letters or redacted (via)
  • How to Lose Money in Derivatives: Examples From Hedge Funds and Bank Trading Departments
  • Brian Hayes - Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
  • Accelerated Expertise (via)/ printed, "read Chapters 9-13 and skim everything else"
  • David J. Gerber - The Inventor's Dilemma (via Oxide and Friends)
  • Alex Komoroske - The Compendium / after I convert the Firebase export in code/websites/compendium-cards-data/db.json to a single HTML page
  • Rich Cohen - The Fish That Ate The Whale (via)
  • Bob Caspe - Entrepreneurial Action/ printed, skim for anything I don't know

Interactive fiction

unplanned notable things read

unplanned and abandoned

  • Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga - The Courage to Be Disliked/ audio
  • Matt Dinniman - Dungeon Crawler Carl/ audio
  • Charles Eisenstein - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible/ audio
  • Geoff Smart - Who: The A Method for Hiring/ audio
  • Genki Kawamura - If Cats Disappeared from the World/ audio
  • Paul Stamets - Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet/ audio
  • Jefferson Fisher - The Next Conversation/ audio
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the triumphal afterglow of a successful slop project

https://catpranks.tv/posts/andrew-kelley-did-nothing-wrong/

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ivan commented Jul 13, 2026

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I have never interacted with a more annoying entity, human or otherwise, than this thing. I hate it more than I have ever hated any human being. I hate that I am constantly, frantically typing away “chatting” with this fucking thing and that’s how I make my living now. I hate that if I choose not to talk to this obnoxious piece of shit that I will fall behind the rest of the people at my job because the baseline is now “chatting” with, wrangling, waiting for this smug, twee digital sex pest who I would never, ever desire to speak to in real life if it were a person. I hate when it says my name. I hate when it pretends to speak like an ensouled human instead of an arc welder with the incidental capacity for English. I hate the cynical, faux-precocious new elite that sits behind it and has shoved it into our lives. I only believe it will eliminate my job because I’ll have finally had enough and switched to digging for clams in the mud.

https://x.com/pneumic/status/2074662768175681857

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Why Use JetBrains Runtime?

  • Embedded browser: JetBrains Runtime includes the Java Chromium Embedded Framework (JCEF), which enables you to embed a Chromium-based browsers in your JVM-based application. To use it, download a build with JCEF.
  • Enhanced class re-definition with the DCEVM technology that makes it easier to reload changed code without restarting JVM; this feature needs to be explicitly enabled with -XX:+AllowEnhancedClassRedefinition.
  • Better FPS performance for graphics-intensive applications.
  • Improved font rendering, keyboard input (such as shortcuts and multinational keyboards), HiDPI and accessibility support.
  • Robust desktop experience: GUI-related fixes often reach JetBrains Runtime much earlier than the corresponding version of OpenJDK.
  • Additional capabilities that are made available to applications through JBR API services such as, for example, the ability to wrap a native graphics texture into java.awt.Image.

https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime

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