What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
22
pages
Longest Book
1,340
pages
Average book length in
2021
522
pages
Most Shelved
798,917
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
374
people
also shelved
Peter’s
average rating for
2021
4.1
4.1
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it was amazing
5.00
average
Peter’s first review of the year
it was ok
This is a fun New Yorker article turned into a book. It focuses on three things: Loeb's life, the question of whether an object called Oumuamua might have been an alien artifact, and whether aliens are real. It presented a relatively convincing case to a lay-person, which doesn't really mean much, but it does seem clear that whatever it was a particularly weird and strange object. Throughout the whole book, he repeats the idea that academic scien
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it was amazing
it was amazing
it was amazing
Peter’s last review of the year
really liked it
Like many strong works of theory, The Essence of Software provides a language for talking explicitly about a topic that heretofore has remained tacit. I came across EoS after grasping for something similar during ~8 years of running increasingly large software development teams, and because it provides a very helpful mental model for how to think about the design process, it has become required reading for many people I work with.
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