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+Document: WM-003                                                 P. Webb
+Category: Life                                                2017.01.01
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+                     Books I plan to read this year
+
+Abstract
+
+   Setting myself up for failure by making a public promise to read a
+   long-ass list of books.
+
+Body
+
+   My girlfriend and I are in competition to see who can read the most
+   books this year. Before going through my list, let's have a look at
+   my bookshelf.
+
+   📸[My bookshelf has more than books on it][IMG1]
+
+   As you can see, I have a *lot* going on. Eagle-eyed observers will
+   see that some books have red dot stickers on them. Those are there to
+   symbolize which books I have not read yet, or *started* but haven't
+   finished. In alphabetical order, they are:
+
+   - ~~1984 — George Orwell~~ [1]
+   - The 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene
+   - A Culture of Innovation: Insider accounts of computing and life at
+     BBN — David Walden and Raymond Nickerson
+   - The Art of Profitability — Adrian Slywotzky
+   - The Art of the Start — Guy Kawasaki
+   - Astronomy 101 — Carolyn Collins Petersen
+   - Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
+   - Bring the Outdoors In — Shane Powers and Gentl & Hyers
+   - Business Model Generation — Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
+   - The Cold Between — Elizabeth Bonesteel
+   - Connectography — Parag Khanna
+   - Cosmos — Carl Sagan
+   - ~~Count Zero — William Gibson~~ [2]
+   - Designing News — Francesco Franchi
+   - Easy Origami — John Montroll
+   - The Fabric of the Cosmos — Brian Greene
+   - Getting Things Done — David Allen
+   - HOLO 2 — Various Artists/Writers
+   - Humans Of New York stories — Brandon Stanton
+   - Illuminations: Wisdom From This Planet's Greatest
+     Minds — Illuminatiam
+   - Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica Reissue — Kronecker Wallis
+   - The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 — Lionel Shriver
+   - The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook — Danny Bowien and Chris Ying
+   - Mona Lisa Overdrive — William Gibson
+   - NASA Graphic Standards Manual reissue — Jesse Reed & Hamish Smyth
+   - The Nature of Code — Daniel Shiffman
+   - NES/Famicom: a visual compendium — Sam Dyer
+   - NLP: The New Technology of Achievement — NLP Comprehensive and
+     Steve Andreas
+   - Operating Systems: Design and Implementation — Andrew S Tanenbaum
+     and Albert S Woodhull
+   - A People's History of the United States — Howard Zinn
+   - Physics of the Future — Michio Kaku
+   - Rayla 2212 — Ytasha L Womack
+   - The Remnants of Trust — Elizabeth Bonesteel
+   - The Secret Recipes — Dominique Ansel
+   - Selling the Invisible — Harry Beckwith
+   - Snowcrash — Neal Stephenson
+   - Space Chronicles — Neil deGrasse Tyson
+   - Universal Principles of Design — William Lidwell and Kritina Holden
+
+   That's 38 books in total. Of those, two of them aren't actually in my
+   possession *yet*. "Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica Reissue" and
+   "NES/Famicom: a visual compendium" are both Kickstarter-backed books
+   that should be delivered sometime this year.
+
+   To hold myself accountable *and* make sure I retain the information I
+   read, I'm going to do book reports on this blog which will basically
+   be reviews. My girlfriend is going to do the same thing on her
+   blog[3], so be sure to check that out.
+
+   I am most excited to read "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive"
+   because I absolutely *love* "Neuromancer" (all three of these books
+   were written by William Gibson). I've read it a few times already.
+   Funny story, while still in high school I visited a Borders bookstore
+   (RIP) to buy Neuromancer. The store clerk thought I said "New
+   Romancer" and wasted 10 minutes trying to find the incorrect book. In
+   hindsight, I'm surprised that wasn't a real book in the store.
+
+   Anyhoo, the book I am reading right now is "A Culture of Innovation:
+   Insider accounts of computing and life at BBN". I am *fascinated*
+   about the beginnings of the Internet. To think that it didn't always
+   exist and now it's in the very fabric of our lives thanks in part to
+   the people at "Bolt Beranek and Newman" is so cool to me. 🕸
+
+References
+
+   [1]    </WM-016>
+   [2]    </WM-006>
+   [3]    <https://sincerelyshantelle.com>
+   [IMG1] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2017/books-i-plan-to-read-this-year-a.jpg>