<h1 id="books">Books<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#books"></a></h1>
<h2 id="summary">Summary<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#summary"></a></h2>
<p>This is a collection of books I've read and notes I've taken on them. It was originally written without the goal of publication.  You have been warned.</p>
<h2 id="backlog">Backlog<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#backlog"></a></h2>
<p>Books I want to read</p>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich">The Death of Ivan Ilych</a> (source: Bad wizards podcast)
<ul>
<li>Leo Tolstoy</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a title="Private" href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/hfyvYGJZQiUwQaaxQO27q.html" target="_blank" class="private">res.books.log-bucket (Private)</a></li>
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<h2 id="archive">Archive<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#archive"></a></h2>
<p>Books I've read and taken notes on</p>
<h3 id="product">Product<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#product"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/926ae8dc-1c4e-4634-a979-31594c57db6d">Badass</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/w0wwvx5kgwvc238jnql1l3t">Hooked</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/fk95c7tpa4lpmvzmmslub0r">The Mom Test</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="people">People<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#people"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/7b30185c-7632-474e-8b6d-84b31ab3bc78">Crucial Conversations</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/a8jwloovyhl2a1pw0iyrzmd">How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="business">Business<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#business"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/k5ruetv60sg4gudx1b64i0z">Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/22N2C6b1uuHb3fSaAdewh">The Hard Thing about Hard Things</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/1da94030-c045-4002-8de0-67d35e6eee74">The Lean Startup</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/58f3a123-b860-489e-b2f1-4af3111c2477">The One Thing</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/tIuGZJp8VJo0tShFSdEjM">What You Do Is Who You Are</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/bdc2c1f2-6c24-4fe4-8010-b488d372dc26">Creativity, Inc.</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="life">Life<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#life"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/eff41be5-dc19-4536-87b5-4b91ed295ba0">Principles: Life and Work</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/c7341f2c-8a0d-40ec-8492-a1be50aaf43a">Man's Search For Meaning</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/0diwerbmsay8qnf4vworsbx">The Art of Learning</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="fiction">Fiction<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#fiction"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/4720117b-0347-4341-a91f-509791707a43">The Alchemist</a></li>
<li><a title="Private" href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/hfyvYGJZQiUwQaaxQO27q.html" target="_blank" class="private">res.books.congo (Private)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="biographies">Biographies<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#biographies"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/816l338o6sha75lflvjxtoq"><input type="checkbox" disabled class="task-before task-status" checked>Mind at Play</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="unsorted">Unsorted<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#unsorted"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/YIa9Rkc7m9qh131CyNYDk">Cooked</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/5b88a38d-3890-4be7-ac2b-efaac468a357">Mythical Man Month</a></li>
</ul>

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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
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<li><a href="/notes/q7VooOfdLhTvZhfY">Resources (kevin-public)</a></li>
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<li><a href="/notes/mzmlb08sdn8fg404hn9obo8">Post Travel (kevin-public)</a></li>
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## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

You are reading my personal site which is managed and published using Dendron. You can [clone this site locally](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-public-vault) or [make your own](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg). 


## Navigating the Garden

The advantage of a garden is that it is non-linear and can offer much more context than a linear blog. This is also its greatest downside as it can be hard to know where to begin. If you want to ease into this experience and want a linear feed of blog posts, I would recommend starting off with the [[Blog|dendron://kevin-blog/blog]] hierarchy. 

If you are feeling more adventurous, you can read about how this blog is structured below and go down your own trail!

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## Contact

You can find and contact me in the following places (sorted by frequency of use):

- Email: kevin(at)dendron.so
- Twitter: [`@kevins8`](https://twitter.com/kevins8)
- Github: [`@kevins8`](https://github.com/kevinslin)
- LinkedIn: [`@kevinslin-thence`](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinslin-thence)

## Working in the Open

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Code for this blog is available on [github](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-garden).

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