Late 2020/Early 2021 Reading List

My last reading list update was in August of 2020 which seems like a lifetime ago given everything that has happened (or not) happened over the last seven months. I’ve found it hard to concentrate and complete the majority of the titles below and have been spending much more type hacking on my home network and listening to podcasts instead of reading, which is unfortunate.

With the change the air (and in the weather), perhaps I’ll do better and finish up this list. If these updates are nothing else they remind me that I should freeze Kindle purchases!

History, Politics, and Fiction

• Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
  by Anne Nelson
• Colder than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir (Bluejacket Books) by Joseph R. Owen
• Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid
• Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945 (Vol. 3) (Pacific War Trilogy) by Ian W. Toll
• From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
  by Gene Sharp
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels: A Library of America eBook Classic by Katherine Anne Porter,

Technology

• Data Teams: A Unified Management Model for Successful Data-Focused Teams by Jesse Anderson
• Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) by John D. Kelleher, Brendan Tierney
• Building Analytics Teams: Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement by John K. Thompson and Douglas B. Laney
• Rust Tutorial: Modern systems level programming language.
  Gouic Books
• Effective Kafka: A Hands-On Guide to Building Robust and Scalable Event-Driven Applications with Code Examples in Java

Leadership and Management

• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
• Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual by Jocko Willink
• The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp