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88 Names (2020) 
 Description 
 John Chu is a “sherpa” — a paid guide who leads clients through online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry , providing them with top-tier characters and gear for dragon-slaying, starship-hunting, or zombie-apocalypse adventures. When he’s hired to guide a mysterious new client claiming to be a North Korean prince, the job…

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 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58093808-fundamentals-of-software-architecture 
 author 
 Mark Richards, Neal Ford 
 edition 
 2nd (2025) 
 status 
 reading (ch 1–6 ingested) 
 
 About this book 
 A comprehensive, practical guide to software architecture covering the architect’s role, architectural characteristics, structural…

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 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24612127-reclaiming-conversation 
 author 
 Sherry Turkle 
 date 
 2015 
 
 About this book 
 Sherry Turkle argues that the always-on, device-mediated life is eroding our capacity for face-to-face conversation — and with it, empathy, creativity, and genuine intimacy. Drawing on years of interviews across…

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 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48816586-software-engineering-at-google 
 author 
 Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright 
 date 
 2020 
 
 About this book 
 Software engineering is programming integrated over time — the book’s core thesis. Where programming produces code, software engineering adds sustainability, team scale, and the…

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 Earth for All 
 author 
 Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström, Per Espen Stoknes 
 date 
 2022 
 
 About this book 
 Earth for All is the Club of Rome’s 21st-century answer to The Limits to Growth (1972). Using the Earth4All model , a system-dynamics simulation integrating energy, food,…
How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, and Save the World 
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👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44135420-team-topologies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203578835-how-to-think-like-socrates
Some interesting readings: 
 
 https://www.afterbabel.com/p/dont-give-your-child-an-ai-companion (by Jonathan Haidt) 
 2026-01-20 ◦ Be Wary of Digital Deskilling - Cal Newport 
 2026-01-20 ◦ The Most Underrated Productivity Technique - Scott H Young 
 
 Some audio tools: 
 
 
 2026-01-20 ◦ Free Unlimited Audio Tools - Start Editing Now - Voice.ai 
 The stem…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863499-how-to-think-like-a-roman-emperor
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43621841-the-little-book-of-stoicism 
 Notes 
 Core principles 
 According to Jonas Salzgeber, the core principles of Stoicism are represented visually as
the Stoic Happiness Triangle . This triangle provides a simple overview of the most
important aspects of Stoicism. 
 The Core Goal: Eudaimonia 
 At the core of the triangle is…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127280508-the-stoic-mindset 
 Notes 
 16 
 According to the Stoics, emotions are the result of our judgments about events. An emotion
is fundamentally neither good nor bad. It’s a reflection of your judgment and your
thoughts about a situation. 
 17 
 The Stoics try not to act on immediate emotion. In other words: they endeavor to not…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind
LdN443 - Warum bekommen Bauern ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen – und zerstören die Artenvielfalt? (Christine Chemnitz, Agora Agrar) 
 Überblick 
 
 Sendung: Lage der Nation #443 - Sommerinterview mit Christine Chemnitz 
 Gast: Dr. Christine Chemnitz, Co-Direktorin von Agora Agrar 
 Moderatoren: Ulf Buermeyer und Philip Banse 
…

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 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171681821-the-anxious-generation 
 author 
 Jonathan Haidt 
 date 
 2024 
 
 About this book 
 Two forces converged between 2010 and 2015 to rewire childhood: smartphones pushed children onto social media before their brains were ready, while safetyism simultaneously removed the unsupervised real-world play that…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35852435-becoming-supernatural 
 Neuroplasticity & Brain-Body Connection 
 Neural Wiring Through Repetition (p. 55): 
 
 Highlight 1 - Page 55 
 
 
 The more you repeat a thought, choice, behavior, experience, or emotion, the more those
neurons fire and wire together and the more they will sustain a long-term relationship.…
A brief history of information networks from the stone age to AI 
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 Information as connection vs. representation 
 Information’s primary function is to create networks and connections rather than merely
represent reality. This fundamental insight challenges traditional views of information as
truth-seeking. 
 Key quote (p. 35): 
 
 What the…
ℹ️ Summarized and structured with the help of LLMs: 
 Chapter 1: Why We Must Ask the Big Questions 
 Hawking argues that humanity’s fundamental drive to understand the universe through
scientific inquiry is both natural and essential. Complex scientific concepts can be made
accessible to everyone, and asking “big questions” about our existence is crucial…
👉 2025-06-02 ◦ Shaolin Warrior Master: Hidden Epidemic Nobody Talks About! This Modern Habit Is Killing Millions! 
 Organized insights from the interview with Master Shi Heng Yi on mental mastery, physical discipline, and spiritual growth 
 Choice Overload and Decision-Making in Modern Life 
 Main Aspects 
 
 
 
 Information Paralysis 
 Modern society presents…
Gartenkalender - Der Rhythmus des Gartenjahres 
 März - Der Beginn der Vorfreude 
 
 
 Kernthemen 
 
 Vorbereitung und Planung 
 
 
 
 Zitat 
 
 “Im März beginnt die Vorfreude. Ziehe die ersten Gemüsepflanzen auf der Fensterbank vor.” 
 
 
 Praktische Maßnahmen 
 
 Gemüseanbau: “Kohlrabi, Kürbis, Zucchini und…
2025-05-21 ◦ LdN430 Merz nach 2. Wahlgang Kanzler, SPD-Minister:innen, Warum Israel den Gaza-Streifen besetzen will (Ofer Waldman, Journalist), AfD gesichert rechtsextremistisch und die Folgen, Papst-Wahl – Lage der Nation Plus 
 Neue Bundesregierung unter Friedrich Merz 
 Wahl des Bundeskanzlers 
 
 
 Historischer Fehlschlag im ersten Wahlgang: Merz verfehlte die erforderliche…

 
 2025-05-19 ◦ Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time - Carbon Brief 
 
 23 gigawatts of solar and 13GW of wind were added in March 2025 alone, up 80% and 110%
from previous records for the month 
 
 
 The China Wind Energy Association expects a new record of 105-115GW installed in 2025,
up from the record-breaking…
Lage der Nation - Folge 429 (1. Mai 2025) 
 Neue Regierungsbildung: Union und SPD 
 Koalitionsvertrag und Abstimmungen 
 
 Union (CDU/CSU) und SPD haben dem Koalitionsvertrag mit großer Mehrheit zugestimmt 
 Auf dem CDU-Bundesausschuss gab es keine “gespielte Euphorie”, sondern eine eher
gedämpfte Stimmung 
 Friedrich Merz hat Erwartungsmanagement betrieben:…

 
 https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2025/04/29/sleep-month-end-update/ 
 
 One idea that I found particularly helpful was Jade Wu’s comment that tiredness is not the
same as sleepiness. Sleepiness is a lack of sleep. Tiredness is a lack of energy. The two
are not interchangeable. 
 

👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125083585-baustellen-der-nation 
 Vorwort 
 Grundsätzliche Positionen der Autoren 
 
 
 Der Staat muss eine aktivere Rolle übernehmen als bisher 
 
 Dafür braucht es ein neues Verständnis staatlichen Handelns. Es gehört zum Grundkonsens
der sozialen Marktwirtschaft, dass der Staat einen Rahmen setzt, in dem Bürger:innen…

 
 Taming Claude’s 3.7 chaotic “energy” ( source ) with this system prompt: 
 
 ## Implementation Principles 
 
 
 Progressive Development 
 
 Implement solutions in logical stages rather than all at once 
 Pause after completing each meaningful component to check user requirements 
 Confirm scope understanding before beginning…

 
 The story behing 100 Go Mistakes and how to avoid them 
 
 In terms of royalties, I got paid 10% on all sales. On one hand, yes, that’s not a lot.
Yet, you really have to understand how helpful a publisher can be for a first-time
“author” with zero experience like I was back then, for two main reasons: 
 First, and we will go over the process later, but the number…
Podcast on Clean Architecture 
 Today I was listening to
 https://threedots.tech/episode/is-clean-architecture-overengineering/ where the authors
were discussing the pros & cons of “Clean Architecture / Hexagonal Architecture / Ports &
Adapters”. The summarization (through notebook LLM): 
 
 While the sources primarily discuss Clean Architecture, they note that…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197773418-slow-productivity 
 Page 12: Core Definition 
 The author defines “Slow Productivity” as a philosophy for knowledge work based on three
principles: doing fewer things, working at a natural pace, and focusing on quality. 
 
 SLOW PRODUCTIVITY 
 A philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 
 Notizen 
 S.5 
 
 Ein allgemeines Bild mussten sie schließlich schon haben, wenn sie qualifizierte Arbeit
leisten sollten – allerdings, da aus ihnen ja gute, glückliche Mitglieder der Gesellschaft
werden sollten, eben so allgemein wie nur möglich. Denn der Schlüssel zu Tugend und Glück
liegt, wie wir wissen,…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/de/book/show/122769171-tyranny-of-the-minority 
 Notes 
 Constitutional Challenges and Democratic Reform 
 Aging Constitution (p.17) 
 The Constitution, while providing stability, now threatens democracy through its
pre-democratic design. 
 
 That leads us to another unsettling truth. Part of the problem we face today lies in
something…

 2025-01-23 ◦ Red Pen Reviews • Expert nutrition book reviews 

👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39920242-j-ger-hirten-kritiker 
 Der erste Kontakt 
 Über Marx und Engels Vision des Kommunismus 
 
 Berühmter noch ist das Urbild, das Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels entwarfen. Besoffen von
ihren Ideen, ihrer noch jungen Freundschaft und reichlich gutem Wein definieren sie 1845
in ihrem Brüsseler Exil das erste Mal, was » Kommunismus…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356384-how-democracies-die 
 These are my notes (clustered and analysed using LLMs): 
 Aufstieg autoritärer Herrscher 
 Mechanismen der Machtübernahme 
 
 Wenn ein charismatischer Außenseiter auftaucht und an Beliebtheit gewinnt, indem er die
alte Ordnung in Frage stellt, ist es für Politiker des Establishments, denen die Zügel…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48019.The_Effective_Executive 
 After reading Cal Newport’s book on “ deep work ”, listening to his podcast on productivity
and time management, this book felt like a waste of time. There are tons of other good
books on productivity, time management/self-management. This one is definitely not a good
one.
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1476642 
 Notiz 1 (S. 7) 
 Grundsätzliche Kritik an der Ausbeutung der Tiere 
 
 Denn was ist der Sinn unseres Lebens, Genossen? Machen wir uns doch nichts vor, unser
Leben ist elend, mühselig und kurz. Wir werden geboren und bekommen gerade genug Futter,
um unsere Leiber am Leben zu erhalten; wer von uns dazu imstande ist, wird…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34730052-die-geschichte-der-bienen
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753841-salt-fat-acid-heat 
 Salz 
 Fundamentale Bedeutung 
 
 Einer von vier Grundfaktoren für guten Geschmack 
 Vertieft und verbessert Geschmack 
 Qualität der Salzung wichtiger als Quantität 
 
 Originalzitate: 
 
 “Ob Sie noch nie einen Kochlöffel in der Hand hatten oder bereits hervorragend kochen…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122765395-elon-musk 
 Here are my some highlights, categorized by LLMs: 
 Childhood and early life 
 Questioning Authority 
 Musk’s early skepticism of religious teachings 
 
 When Musk was young, his mother started taking him to Sunday school at the local Anglican
Church, where she was a teacher. It did not go well. She…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-for-the-future
LdN391 - Spezial: Wie können Sie mit den Grünen regieren? (Daniel Günther, CDU-Ministerpräsident Schleswig-Holstein) ) 
 Zusammenfassung 
 Zusammenarbeit zwischen CDU und Grünen in Schleswig-Holstein 
 
 
 Erfolgreiche Aspekte der Kooperation 
 
 
 Gegenseitiges Gönnen 
 
 “Das läuft so gut, weil man sich gönnen können muss.” 
 
 
…
LdN 392: Spezial: Wie geht wirksame Klimapolitik? (Jens Beckert, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung) ( link ) 
 Zusammenfassung 
 Erbschaftssteuer und soziale Ungleichheit 
 Vermögenskonzentration und soziale Mobilität 
 Hauptprobleme: 
 
 Zunehmende Vermögenskonzentration 
 Mangel an sozialer Mobilität 
 Dynastische Vermögensweitergabe 
 
…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199211943-triggerpunkte 
 Hier sind meine Notizen, teilweise Zitate aus dem Buch, aber auch größere Abschnitte mit diversen LLMs zusammengefasst: 
 Einleitung 
 Cleavages cleavage 
 Cleavages (Konfliktlinien) sind historisch bedingte soziale oder kulturelle Trennlinien, die Bürger innerhalb einer Gesellschaft in Gruppen mit unterschiedlichen…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450534.When_the_Body_Says_No 
 Chapters 
 1 The Bermuda Triangle 
 3 Stress and emotional competence 
 Note 
 
 When people describe themselves as being stressed, they usually mean the nervous
agitation they experience under excessive demands-most com- monly in the areas
of work, family, relationships, finances or health. But…
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 👉 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57933306 
 Chapters 
 1 Cause One: The Increase in Speed, Switching and Filtering 
 29 
 Set away distractions to see what you’re distracted from: 
 
 It’s when you set aside your distractions, he said, that you begin to see what
you were distracting yourself from. 
 34…
👉 Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34921573-lost-connections 
 Chapters 
 Part 1: The Crack in the old story (27) 
 The Wand (28) 
 With any drug there always comes a story: 
 
 But Irving was also one of the leading experts in the world in a field of science that
began right back in Bath when John Haygarth first waved his false wand. At that time, the
English…
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56913172 
 Chapters 
 1 – The Minimalist Entrepreneur 
 Don’t stop finding the right product (iteration is key!): 
 
 Creator First, Entrepreneur Second On paper, it seems simple enough: Narrow down who your
ideal customer is. Narrow until you can narrow no more. Define exactly what pain point you
are solving for them, and…
👉 Read the book here: https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook 
 Chapters 
 Introduction 
 People & Culture 
 
 
 
 Management Fundamentals 
 
 
 
 17 
 Golden rule of management: 
 
 The golden rule of management: do what it takes to get the best out of your team. In technical leadership as in any other leadership role, the best…