Eric Hotinger
2022 Papers & Books
As 2022 comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on some of the books I’ve had the opportunity to read this year. While I’ve enjoyed all of the books I’ve read, there are a few that stand out as particularly noteworthy.
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World was, hands down, the best book I read this year. This book delves into the power of our mindset and how it can shape our reality.
Here are a few of the other notable books I read over 2022. I put an asterisk beside ones that I’d recommend to others.
Computer Science
- * Designing Distributed Control Systems: A Pattern Language Approach (Wiley Software Patterns Series)
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- * Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service
Fitness
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- * Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
- The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Epic Run that Inspired the World’s Greatest Foot Race
Leadership
- * Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- * Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life
Nonfiction
Psychology
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- * The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
- * The Way of Zen
- * Tao: The Watercourse Way
- Unlimited Memory
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Fiction
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