Short notes about what I'm up to, listening to, and reading.

What will I be doing soon?

• Taking Advanced Operating Systems (AOS) at GaTech

What am I doing now?

What have I done recently?

• Started working on a little side project in Rust
• Went to Germany to see family and enjoy Christmas

Tunes

• Turnstile – SUNSHOWER
• Restraining Order – Fight Back
• Pestpocken – Ueber 20 Jahre

Books (reading)

• Herr aller Dinge by Andreas Eschbach
• Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset

Books (finished)

• Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger. A lot of solid advice. I think Talk Nine and Talk Eleven are enough to read.
• Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang. Not a bad book but simplistic in its view to some extent with a lot of repetition. Never saw the US as a lawyerly society but it makes sense.
• Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski. What a ride. Probably my favorite book of 2025.
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield. First Canadian to walk in space.
• Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo. Highly recommend, great introduction to Distributed Systems.
• The Force by Don Winslow. Pretty solid novel.
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. I don't care if it's a YA novel, but I liked it!
• The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz. It's all right.
• Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter. Was looking for something along the lines of Bukowski.
• Butcher's Crossing by John Williams. Western classic, beautiful language.
• Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick. Enjoyed it. Hacking just for the sake of it.
• Sandworm by Andy Greenberg. Zero-days and hackers — I liked it but wish there was more insight into the actual malware.
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. Not too much of a sci-fi geek but it was a pretty good read.