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  "title": "books on botwerks",
  "home_page_url": "http://botwerks.org/books/","feed_url": "http://botwerks.org/books/feed.json","authors": [
    {"name": "steve ulrich","url": "https://botwerks.net","avatar": "https://botwerks.net/images/avatars/sulrich-beard.png"}
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      "title": "Exhalation",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/exhalation/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/exhalation/","content_text": "wow ted chiang explores parallel universes and time travel in this series of shorts. there are some great twists in thes","date_published": "2019-12-09T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/carry-on-sound-advice-from-schneier-on-security/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/carry-on-sound-advice-from-schneier-on-security/","content_text": "a collection of articles not quite what i expected. given that this is a collection of newspaper articles, op-eds, magaz","date_published": "2019-08-18T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Measure What Matters",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/measure-what-matters/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/measure-what-matters/","content_text": "interesting methodology that could have been covered (with resources) in about 25% of the space consumed. superficial ca","date_published": "2019-03-03T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "The Windup Girl",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-windup-girl/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-windup-girl/","content_text": "wow. that was a great read.","date_published": "2017-03-19T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/i-think-i-am-in-friend-love-with-you/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/i-think-i-am-in-friend-love-with-you/","content_text": "cyoots sometimes i suspect all we really want is someone to retweeble our stupid jokes and text us with cat memes.","date_published": "2016-12-09T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/pothole-confidential-my-life-as-mayor-of-minneapolis/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/pothole-confidential-my-life-as-mayor-of-minneapolis/","content_text": "i really should have bumped this up in my reading queue a lot sooner. As an unabashed fan of minneapolis there's a lot t","date_published": "2016-08-06T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up-the-japanese-art-of-de/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up-the-japanese-art-of-de/","content_text": "there's some stuff in here that's a little touchy-feely for me. but in the spirity of being open minded, i have taken so","date_published": "2015-11-15T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "On Non-Violence",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/on-non-violence/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/on-non-violence/","content_text": "a quick read and a comprehensive collection of quotes. there's no shortage truly quotable material in here either. howev","date_published": "2015-08-25T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-sixth-extinction-an-unnatural-history/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-sixth-extinction-an-unnatural-history/","content_text": "while outlining that extinctions have taken place in a massive scale over the course of earth's history the book doesn't","date_published": "2015-08-25T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/data-and-goliath-the-hidden-battles-to-collect-your-data-and/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/data-and-goliath-the-hidden-battles-to-collect-your-data-and/","content_text": "an evenhanded coverage of the privacy concerns that have come to light since snowden came on the scene. there's nothing ","date_published": "2015-08-24T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "The Martian",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-martian/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-martian/","content_text": "picked it up at magers and quinn on saturday - it's been on the list for a while based on the recommendation of a number","date_published": "2015-02-17T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/cooked-a-natural-history-of-transformation/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/cooked-a-natural-history-of-transformation/","content_text": "pollan delivers another love of food write up. this time wending his way through BBQ, bread, sauerkraut and a variety of","date_published": "2015-01-20T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/secret-knowledge-rediscovering-the-lost-techniques-of-the-ol/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/secret-knowledge-rediscovering-the-lost-techniques-of-the-ol/","content_text": "i came to this from watching tim's vermeer and wrapping up a museum binge trip in europe. this is a quick read and hockn","date_published": "2015-01-08T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "A Short Guide to a Long Life",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/a-short-guide-to-a-long-life/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/a-short-guide-to-a-long-life/","content_text": "for as immediately useful as this book is i'm a bit ashamed at how long it sat in my reading queue. there's no fluffing ","date_published": "2014-12-15T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/what-if-serious-scientific-answers-to-absurd-hypothetical-qu/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/what-if-serious-scientific-answers-to-absurd-hypothetical-qu/","content_text": "pure unadulterated nerd fun. the only thing that would possibly make this better is posting the notebooks used to calcul","date_published": "2014-09-02T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Thinking, Fast and Slow",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/","content_text": "i brought this with me on our winter vacation, which was good since at times you really need a distraction free environm","date_published": "2014-02-05T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/moral-mazes-the-world-of-corporate-managers/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/moral-mazes-the-world-of-corporate-managers/","content_text": "this man was before his time. the introduction alone is worth the kindle price. everyone knows that bureaucracy creates ","date_published": "2013-11-25T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/bailout-nation-how-greed-and-easy-money-corrupted-wall-stree/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/bailout-nation-how-greed-and-easy-money-corrupted-wall-stree/","content_text": "as a big fan of the big picture blog, this has been sitting on the to-read pile for longer than i care to admit. ritholt","date_published": "2013-10-25T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "The Corrections",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-corrections/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-corrections/","content_text": "if you ever thought that your family holiday dinners were annoying. franzen's managed to assemble a troupe of characters","date_published": "2013-08-23T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/big-data-a-revolution-that-will-transform-how-we-live-work-a/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/big-data-a-revolution-that-will-transform-how-we-live-work-a/","content_text": "for all of the hoopla you'd think that there would be a lot less uh, well, duh. mercifully, it's a quick read.","date_published": "2013-06-26T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/makers-the-new-industrial-revolution/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/makers-the-new-industrial-revolution/","content_text": "anderson does a nice job of outlining for the general public some of the developments in recent years around limited run","date_published": "2013-06-15T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder/","content_text": "one of the my personal measures of how good a book is, is whether or not I find myself compelled to read it with a penci","date_published": "2013-06-02T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "A Hologram for the King",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/a-hologram-for-the-king/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/a-hologram-for-the-king/","content_text": "I actually enjoyed this egger book.","date_published": "2013-04-03T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-signal-and-the-noise-why-so-many-predictions-failbut-som/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-signal-and-the-noise-why-so-many-predictions-failbut-som/","content_text": "definitely worth the read. i don't think mr. bayes has received so much popular love since legions of system administrat","date_published": "2013-02-15T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Fake Work: Why People Are Working Harder than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/fake-work-why-people-are-working-harder-than-ever-but-accomp/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/fake-work-why-people-are-working-harder-than-ever-but-accomp/","content_text": "It's a constant struggle to prioritize and understand what is real work and what is fake work. the costs of fake work ar","date_published": "2012-09-30T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire-harry-potter-4/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire-harry-potter-4/","content_text": "while entertaining, i can't bring myself to get too excited about this series of books. that said, i can certainly appre","date_published": "2012-09-30T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "The Rapture of the Nerds",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-rapture-of-the-nerds/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/the-rapture-of-the-nerds/","content_text": "I'm sure there are folks that this appeals to. for me this was a slog through the authors trying to come up with their c","date_published": "2012-09-29T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Cloud Atlas",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/cloud-atlas/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/cloud-atlas/","content_text": "totally engrossing. I don't want to see the movie. they'll totally screw it up.","date_published": "2012-09-09T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/tubes-a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-internet/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/tubes-a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-internet/","content_text": "a pleasant enough quick read. if you're in the tribe that works on this stuff, you're familiar with many of the destinat","date_published": "2012-08-26T00:00:00Z"
    },{
      "title": "Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing",
      "id": "http://botwerks.org/books/some-remarks-essays-and-other-writing/",
      "url": "http://botwerks.org/books/some-remarks-essays-and-other-writing/","content_text": "collections of favorite authors short stories are often disappointing. this was not. there were a few nuggets in here th","date_published": "2012-08-16T00:00:00Z"
    }]}