There's some really great suggestions on this list by everyone else, and many I want to read! Thank you for sharing your best read for 2023.

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I probably read about 60ish books this year - I don't think any one in particular book stood out from the rest, but they all took me on an interesting journey through them. Here are some memorable ones :

1. How Iceland changed the world by Egill Bjaanason

2. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Wetherford

3. Insanely Simple , the obsession that drives Apple’s success by Ken Segell

4. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

5. Trillion Dollar Coach (Bill Campbell) by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle

6. The Tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell

7. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

8. JFK and the Unspeakable by James W Douglass

9. The Pirates of Panama or the Bucaneers of America by Alexander Olivier

10. Prototype Nation, China and the Contested Promise of Innovation by Silvia M Lindtner

11. Contagious, why things catch on by Jonah Berger

12. Connecting the Dots, Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World (Cisco) by Chambers, John

13. Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing Is Still Key to America’s Future by Ro Khanna

14. Red Light Therapy by Ari Whitten

15. Nuclear Power explained by Dirk Eidemuller

16. A long way gone, Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

17. On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe

18. Demokrasi : Indonesia in the 21st century by Hamish McDonald

19. Drugs as Weapons against us by John L Potash (re read)

20. Mukiwa, A white boy in Africa by Peter Godwin

21. It’s not only Rock and Roll by Jenny Boyd

22. Mindset - changing the way you think to fulfil your potential by Carol S Dweck

23. The idealist : Aaron Shwartz and the rise of the free culture of the internet by Justin Peters

24. Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein

25. Hillbilly Elegy, A memoir of a family and culture in crisis by JD Vance

26. Savage inequalities, children in America’s schools by Jonathan Kozol

27. The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas

28. Neuroscience of creativity by Oshnin Vartanian, Adam Bristol and James Kauffman

29. Some thoughts concerning education by John Locke

30. Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau

31. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston

32. Zimbabwe under the British Empire by Charles River

33. IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black

I have never encounted a community of people with a more positive attitude than the nostr community (at least the subset that I follow). Almost everybody is upbeat, positive, can-do, bright-eyed and bushy tailed, "let's build it", "let's fix it". I appreciate that a lot.

It feels like but not really that much. Capacity is getting back up near ATHs

Capacity continues to drop.

I’m just going to leave this right here.

lol looks like someone already started

Got scam email. Looked at the HTML. When you enter your data it submits it to a Telegram bot, complete with the API key(!!!). It goes to somebody named "skele". Should I write a script to loop over and over again sending messages to this Telegram room?

I got more heavy stuff to release in the coming days.

One of the biggest obstacles to growth I've seen in people is that make everything about themselves. Not everything happens to you or for you. The higher you climb the more it is about others.

When struggles starts - no matter what happens - on your end it's all about staying productive, being a good person, and doing the best you can. That's all.

Yes, you are there because of the experiences and skills that you have. But maybe you're also there to be an example. Martyr. You could be part of someone's test. You never know how Universe wants to use you.

After going through all the life experiences and startups in the last two decades - the only moments I regret are those when I lost control and lashed out, blaming and hurting others.

On the other hand, if I managed to keep control and stay the course, it has paid huge dividends. I've had engineers come back in decade and admit they've been assholes causing problems, only to end up being critical for the projects I'm currently on. Young startup founders who followed my struggles and wanted to know details behind them so they can do better. Or my favorite - VCs that have been following me on Twitter for years... and complain they can't shitpost (I explain that they can, but not high success rate there).

The most important part: don't allow pain to provide opening for corruption to seep in, allowing others to vilify you. Stay the course and do the best you can. Protect others that are overexposed. The more you can honestly channel the truth you feel, the better in tune you'll be to manifest whatever outcome Universe wants you to manifest.