From a6b2233fc12083c7326ab5e1862835bd54cab2a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Dean Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:01:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add books --- .gitignore | 1 - books.html | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ engineering.html | 11 +++--- index.html | 11 +++++- 4 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 books.html diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index cc60c36..aaeae54 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,3 +1,2 @@ .DS_Store values.html -books.html diff --git a/books.html b/books.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8609ffc --- /dev/null +++ b/books.html @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ + + + + + + + Alex Dean + + + + +
+
+ Books
+ Engineering
+ +
+ +
+

Alex Dean

+ Back + +

There's nothing quite like a book that changes how you see the world. There's nothing quite like perceiving life through some unspoken lens, and then having some elegant idea change that perception. Books like that are the stuff of magic.

+ +

The purpose of this page is to serve as a resource for others hoping to be transformed. For each year, I selected the top five books (from the roughly 40 to 50 books I typically get through) that have influenced me the most. While my selections are susceptible to my inherent biases of what is important, as well as my prevailing interests and attitudes of the time, I hope this page will be useful for others willing to indulge their curiosities to the furthest extent.

+ +
+ +

2024

+
    +
  1. The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
    2. +
  2. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
    3. +
  3. The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
    4. +
+ +

2023

+
    +
  1. Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
    2. +
  2. Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar
    3. +
  3. The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott
    4. +
  4. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
    5. +
  5. Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
    6. +
+ +

2022

+
    +
  1. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
    2. +
  2. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
    3. +
  3. American Pharaoh by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor
    4. +
  4. Pacific by Simon Winchester
    5. +
  5. Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
    6. +
+ +

2021

+
    +
  1. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
    2. +
  2. This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
    3. +
  3. The Second Founding by Eric Foner
    4. +
  4. The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter
    5. +
  5. The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
    6. +
+ +

2020

+
    +
  1. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
    2. +
  2. Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
    3. +
  3. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
    4. +
  4. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
    5. +
  5. Politics Is For Power by Eitan Hersh
    6. +
+ +

2019

+
    +
  1. Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
    2. +
  2. Incognito by David Eagleman
    3. +
  3. Range by David Epstein
    4. +
  4. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
    5. +
  5. Make It Stick by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel
    6. +
+ +

2018

+
    +
  1. So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
    2. +
  2. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
    3. +
  3. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
    4. +
  4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. +
  5. Othello by William Shakespeare
    6. +
+
+
+ + diff --git a/engineering.html b/engineering.html index 6582b61..b4e510e 100644 --- a/engineering.html +++ b/engineering.html @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
- + Books
Engineering
+
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@

Alex Dean

  • - Generative Documentation & Testing: NPM package that + Generative Documentation & Testing — NPM package that functions as a CLI tool using the GPT 3.5 API to improve your JavaScript and TypeScript code. It helps you write better code by automatically generating documentation, refactoring code to improve performance and maintainability, @@ -33,7 +34,7 @@

    Alex Dean

    GitHub page.
  • - Generative Satire: Automated satirical news site monitoring + Generative Satire — Automated satirical news site monitoring recent events and generating Onion-style articles using LLMs; At its peak, the site had a viewership of about 1500 people per week. The application was built using a React frontend and a Node.js backend, with articles stored on a @@ -43,7 +44,7 @@

    Alex Dean

    GitHub page.
  • - Read This to Me: Application that converts written text into + Read This to Me — Application that converts written text into audio from a wide variety of dialects, using the SpeechSynthesis Web API. The site was built using JavaScript and HTML/CSS. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages with a custom domain. You can see the @@ -51,7 +52,7 @@

    Alex Dean

    GitHub page.
  • - Language Discovery: Application that applies various + Language Discovery — Application that applies various similarity algorithms on various human language data sets. By languages, I'm referencing frequency dictionaries for human languages, which catalog how frequently a word is used in one language relative to another. I examine diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 47231c2..6aab235 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
    - + Books
    Engineering
    +
    @@ -32,6 +33,14 @@

    Alex Dean

    my GitHub.

    + +

    You can reach me at dean.alex.contact [at] gmail [dot] com.