- James Wood, Serious noticing. Some good stuff in here, but ultimately not engaging.
- Anton Howes, Arts and Minds. I’ve really enjoyed Howes’s Substack and Twitter about the history of invention and innovation. But I put this one down—I just couldn’t make myself care that much about the inside baseball of the Royal Society of Arts.
- John Scalzi, The Last Emporox. The conclusion of The Interdependency series. A vintage Scalzi space midwestern.
- Michael Lopp, The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well. Mostly a collection of blog posts from Rands in Repose, with some refinements and additions. Recommended for all engineering leaders.
- Gene Wolfe, Litany of the Long Sun (Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun). Kim Stanley Robinson cited this as one of his favorite books. Slow to get going but not what you expect.