The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 - Richard J. Evans

Continuing the fascinating, horrifying story of the Nazi regime after it came to power. Moving on to the third volume with just a bit of trepidation.

This illustration of Jewish Germans realisation of their predicament after Kristallnacht violence of November 1938.

For many jews the shock of the pogrom was profound, destroying any last illusion they might have had that their patriotism, their war service, their skills, their education or even the fact that they were human beings would protect them from the Nazis.

and this quote describing the German/Soviet non aggression pact.

A formal alliance between two powers that had spent the previous six years mutually vilifying each other in public and had been the major backers of the two opposing sides of the Spanish civil war was unexpected to say the least.

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The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

Science ... literally ... for the win!

We must avoid the caricature that science means formula or a lack of humanity in work. In fact science is one of humanities most creative pursuits.

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The Coming of the Third Reich - Richard J. Evans

A revealing, insightful and thorough examination of German history in the years preceding the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.

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The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner

It's like an Indiana Jones movie. There's no other game that even remotely approaches this.

The journal of a very young Jordan Mechner as he built Prince of Persia, one of my favoriate games of all time. I remember playing this game in my teens, aware how it was somehow different from its contemporaries, but being completely ignorant of the technical leap that it represented.

This book reveals the hard work, time and genius that went into creating that game and I am very grateful the author shared it.

It is hard to imagine that I would have something in common with the creator of Prince of Persia, but there are definitely moments which, as a programmer, feel very familiar.

Oliver found a bug in POP. I'm bummed as it was one I'd fixed once, too, and it somehow got undone. But it's shippable, even with the bug, so that's probably what they'll decide to do. Shit.

Fascinating, surprising, nostalgic and highly recommended.

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The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

After my recent failures, I decided to head to the Audible Hugo list for my next book. I am pretty pleased with how that turned out.

The Windup Girl is a fascinating window into a well thought out, internally consistent, potential future. Having spent some time in Bangkok, the sweltering context for the story was quite familiar and very compelling.

"I hope you don't die too soon, I also like you"

Just brilliant.

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