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Each year I log my reads manually and post them here, and I track author’s gender and race (to the best of my knowledge) to measure how I’m choosing my influences through books. Of the 38 authors I read this past year, 27 were white men, 8 white women, 2 men of color, and 1…

Each year I log my reads manually and post them here. Also, as a white, cisgendered male I track the gender and race (estimated based on my looking online) of each author. I read 31 books this year – primarily audiobooks – and the breakdown of authors is: List of books I read in 2022,…

41 books read or listened to in 2021 and a breakdown by (assumed) gender and race. I continue to read mostly books by white men, which I will continue to monitor and modify. 25 by white male authors; 9 white women; 6 women or color; 1 man of color 16 fiction, 25 non-fiction. Like most…

List of books read in 2020. By the numbers: 48 books read this year 20 fiction, 28 non-fiction 28 of 48 by white male authors I planned to increase my reading of BIPOC and female/non-binary authors. Even in a year with increased attention on race relations, I increased my percentage only slightly, from 34% in…

Below are the books I consumed in 2019, the vast majority of which I listened to for free via the Seattle Public Library’s Libby app. I highlighted a few of my favorites in bold. A couple observations: I intended to increase my reading of non-white-male authors. I largely failed, as 30 of the 46 books…

Inspired by the post by Matt Mullenweg earlier this year, I’ve listed the books I read (either on paper, Kindle, or listened to via Audible or the library) in 2018.  I did not list books I started but chose not to finish. In bold are my ten-ish favorites from last year. Those books, in particular,…

Originally published by Meeting of the Minds, 9/10/2018. https://meetingoftheminds.org/traffic-safety-solutions-are-here-28200 Republished here for archival purposes. On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania, in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. It was a senseless act of violence. On September 12, 2001, 100 more people were killed…

FAFSA 19 REVIEW An incremental improvement over its predecessors     OCTOBER 10, 2018 Reviewed on PC By Brian Chandler: I have a long history with FAFSA, starting with the pen-and-paper versions of the 1990s. FAFSA ’93 was obtuse, challenging, and rewarding in a way that only government forms can capture. FAFSA 19 maintains the…

In 1986, Firebird Software developed Mad Nurse, a video game for the Commodore 64. The premise of the game was simple: You are a nurse in a multilevel nursery, and your job is to keep the infants safe. Your charge – put the babies in the crib – is easy enough. But the perils are…