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This year, I’ve been heavily skewing towards non-fiction, especially business/process-related books and spiritual practices/philosophy books. It sort of continues last year’s trend from the likes of Getting Things Done
and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
. Before last year, I’d been skewing heavily towards fiction for several years. As will be mentioned for some of these specific books, I have a feeling that I’m at a turning point in my career (and possibly in my life more broadly), so I’m drawn lately to books that can speak into that sort of thing. As Hank Green would say, I’m on a journey of meaning.
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Beware: This began as a comment on a Hacker News thread. It’s also more to do with categorization and musical instruments than tomatoes.
String, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard, Voice…
Classification of musical instruments into these sorts of categories gets tricky in some areas (especially with regard to percussion). Really, the percussion and keyboard categories (when people acknowledge them) kind of become weird catchall categories, especially percussion. Also, depending on our goal, it’s ok to let one instrument belong to multiple categories.
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