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I'm mid-listen on the audiobook of Isaacson's Elon Musk, narrated by Jeremy Bobb, and as a builder I keep hearing the engineering algorithm in my own work. A discerning take: I admire the deletion discipline and the first-principles fire, but I read the mania and the human cost clear-eyed.
I'm mid-listen on the Born a Crime audiobook, narrated by Trevor Noah himself, and it is one of the best-told things I have ever put in my ears. A story of apartheid, a fierce mother, language as survival, and lightness pulled out of hardship.
I'm mid-listen to Out of Your Mind, recorded lectures in Alan Watts' own archival voice (his laugh included), and it is the philosophical bedrock under everything I think about the cosmos and the self. You are the universe experiencing itself.
I finished the Masters of Doom audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton and it was marvelous. The two-founders, build-from-nothing, ship-relentlessly story of id Software stuck with me. I miss it already, the same way I miss Shoe Dog.