My 2009 Book List

Here’s the list of books I read during 2009.
I finished 49 books in 2009, ahead of my goal of 40.  In 2010 I will attempt 40 books again.
This only captures a sliver of what my eyes have consumed in 2009, since there’s just so much content online these days.  Hopefully at some point we’ll be [...]

A Thought on Masculinity

Some of my old classmates from Georgetown met up to discuss Nick Kristof’s and Sheryl WuDunn’s book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”, a couple weeks ago.  Most of the group was women, but among international development folks, there’s definitely a tribe of guys who are male feminists.
That is to say [...]

Wall Street & Trading

I just finished Karen Ho’s “Liquidated:  An Ethnography of Wall Street”.  It tied together various experiences I had daytrading from 1998-2002 and 2006-2007 and the recruitment sessions that big banks and consulting companies would have for Georgetown Master’s students.
Some things the book helped to confirm:
1) Time differentials.  Wall Street works very often 100-120 hours a [...]

2008 Book Reading

I read 50 books in 2008 after setting a meager goal of 20 books.  I was assuming that I would be too slogged with schoolwork, which was for the most part true.  I read a ton of books over the summer, though.
This year, in 2009, I am setting a goal of 40 books.
Below is a [...]

Imprinting

I opened up a Shelfari account and populated it with most of the books I’ve read from 2005 on — I don’t have a list of what I read before then.
It’s quite an easy service to use. Search for your book and edition, then add it to your shelf. Then add in some [...]

Quote of the Day: Feb. 28, 2006

From Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash:
“Hiro, you are such a geek. She’s a woman, you’re a dude. You’re not SUPPOSED to understand her. That’s not what she’s after. She doesn’t want you to understand HER. She knows THAT’S impossible. She just wants you to understand YOURSELF. Everything else is [...]

Quote of the Day: Feb. 27, 2006

From The Great Influenza:
“As Einstein once said, “One of the strongest motives that lead persons to art or science is a flight from the everyday life… With this negative motive goes a positive one. Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of [...]