February logs

Books

• Mindset

  • This is a book I've been meaning to read for quite some time and actually knew its central message quite well, already.

  • I skim read the book while taking notes.

  • As with most psychology and self help books, this one is also filled with stories which can be safely skipped if you actually get the underlying points.

• Find Me

  • I quite like the Call Me By Your Name by the same author and that's why I picked up this book.

  • This was a pretty quick read, but I found the plots and characters in the most part unbelievalble.

  • This lack of genuineness almost ruined the book for me, but finished it nonetheless since it was a quick read.

  • References to classics, such as hidden Roman galleries, was one of the few redeeming qualities of the book for me.

• Lord of the Flies

• How to Take Smart Notes

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

• UNIX: A History and a Memoir

• The Catcher in the Rye

• Peak Performance

• The Passion Paradox

• The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

• Sula

• Fluchtpunkt Lisp

  • This is a very short Zine from one my favourite Lisp/Clojure Hackers, Michael Fogus.

Papers

• Scalable Component Abstractions - notes

Meetups

• I had to miss both Rust and Scala meetups this month, unfortunately.

• Quite disappointing month overall when it comes to meetups and hikes.

Blog entries

• None!

Entertaintment

• Parasite (2019)

  • Simply one of the best films I've seen this year thus far.

  • This is a tragicomedy about class struggle.

• 1917 (2019)

  • I almost liked this film more than Dunkirk!

  • This film succeeds in portraying the horrors and sheer insanity of the World War I.

• La bohème