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I had this on my shelf for a long time and finally picked it up.

As I mentioned before after reading [[30_zk/30.02_refs/Arden-TheBearandTheNightingale-2017/Arden-TheBearandTheNightingale-2017.md]] I immediately ordered the follow up books from the series.

I saw this at the bookstore and was intrigued by having a book that walks through the math of neural nets and machine learning.

After having read City of Bones I immediately ordered this next installment in the series.

I didn’t really know what to make of this book when I bought it other than that I wanted to get a refresher on game theory and maybe see what a more modern perspective on it could look like.

I was really curious about this book as the topic of care work has been interesting to me for most of my adult life.

For Star Wars day 2026 I drew this sketch while watching TV.

I really enjoyed this book even though it’s fundamentally about not super fun topics.

I was really curious about this book as the topic of enjoying art made by people who express world views very counter to my own is something I often think about.

After having read Dekker’s Field Guide to Understanding Human Error many years ago I had been loosely following his work through recorded talks and lectures, as well as papers.

The feeling of acceleration and “missing time” has been on my mind for quite a while (in which I’m probably not alone) and when I heard about this book I was immediately intrigued.

I had this on my shelf for forever and always wanted to read it and never got to it.

With democracy currently having a much rougher time and being attacked in many ways, I was really intrigued by this book.

I’m a huge fan of web feeds to keep up with content that interests me.

I randomly found this book at the bookstore and was very curious about it.

I’ve read a couple of Newport’s books so far (see here and here) and I’ve generally liked them but also found them somewhat repetitive.

After years of following Hollnagel’s work and having read ETTO many years ago, I finally read this (now) classic that he wrote in 2014.

In my journey this year to read a bit more about economic topics, I came across this book in my bookstore and was curious about.

In the same spirit that made me read Naked Economics I had also asked a friend who’s an economist whether he knew any good books to learn the basics about economics but also specifically about the “Schuldenbremse”, Germany’s balanced budget amendment flip…

I knew the author from when he was moderating tons of shows on VIVA, the German version of MTV.

After reading The Bear and the Nightingale and having already ordered the followups I wanted some more mystical fiction books to read.

I go this book originally because I wanted to start getting a better understanding of economics as a field.

When I ordered the first Metal Gear Solid book I also ordered the second one at the same time.

After reading about the technology of AI I decided to stay with the topic for a bit longer and also read more about the impacts of the technology and its deployment on the world outside of plainly looking at the outputs of the algorithms.

I got this book in order to get a more nuanced idea about current approaches to what’s generally being called “AI”.

I got this recommend by a friend as I had just finished City of Bones and wanted something similar in some regards.

I was really curious about this book as I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my use of technology, the amount of data that is tracked on devices, and just the general state of software (and hardware) where a lot things seem to be getting developed more f…

I found this at the local book store and wasn’t really sure what to make of it but found it interesting enough to buy.

I honestly devoured and thoroughly enjoyed this book.

I started this book many years ago after I had finished watching the Netflix show and really was kinda bummed it ended.

As a long time fan of a lot of the music that Rick Rubin has produced I was really curious about his take on creativity and the pursuit of making art.

I stumbled upon this in a bookshop and while I knew about Bikini Kill, I can’t say I had listened to a lot of their music before.

One of the phrases that are fairly heavily used in tech (as well as many other industries I’m sure) is “bus factor”.

I had read books by Olga Grjasnowa before and really liked her style and view on the topics like migration and multi-lingualism.

I’ve not really concerned myself in depth with the Israel-Palestine conflict much before.

I was super curious about this book.

I super enjoyed this book.

As someone who has played the original Metal Gear Solid game multiple times on the first Playstation as well as the Switch and has fond childhood memories of the story I was curious how it could or would translate to a book.

I stumbled upon this book in the book store and was immediately intrigued by this idea of “winter” as a global but also personal season of struggle, death, and renewal.

I found this book at my favourite book store and was really interested in it without knowing too much about it.

I was intrigued by the title when I saw the book in the bookshop as counterfactuals are something that is seen as not desired in the process of learning from incidents.

I read this as a kind of in between book while I was reading something else.

I enjoyed reading this book thoroughly.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book and I will say that it definitely threw me off a couple of times.

I’ve meditated on and off for at least 10 years or so (since ca. 2013) at this point.

I really enjoyed this book and its thorough focus on the biological and nutritional aspects of nurturing the brain.

I really like these kind of “quick lessons in science” style books where different chapters talk about a specific topic.

I stumbled upon this book somewhere on the internet and ordered it pretty immediately as I thought it would be a good way to get more exposure into some realities of trans life.

Abigail Brand in her suit and tie outfit from S.W.O.R.D. #5, drawn by Valerio Schiti.