A place to put things

My room in my Brooklyn apartment is very small. I have over-engineered the storage capabilities, and yet things still overflow.

The most insidious of these are the technical textbooks. I have pulled a subtle sleight in which I substitute accumulating books on topics in place of learning about their subjects.

This stack has piled up and stare at me with contempt and condescension. To counter their whispers and gestures, I am making these posts to track my reading.

Part of the problem is decision paralysis. Microservices? Distributed systems? Data engineering (my actual job)? There is no perfect order, and waiting for it means never learning anything.

These posts may expand beyond technical subjects, and I have no real plan for an organizational structure. There are many words that I feel I need to read, and writing some of my own feels like a step towards clarity.