Last week I sent out an announcement email to my project's mailing list to inform users that I would be shutting down my latest side project Primeminder.

I've done one of these postmortems before for a side project, and figured since I was shutting down Primeminder I might as well …

Since I was let go from my job I’ve been back on the job hunt. My goals over the last few years have had a pretty simply motto, make as much money as I can as ethically as I can. This means that I’m not willing to work …

I was really busy with job interviews in September (will save that for another post) so I only managed to make it through two books this month. Like I noted last month it didn't help that I did a poor job managing my queue from the library. The books that …

Between enjoying the outdoors and job interviews I didn't read as much as I would have liked in August. I really need to do a better job of planning when I add items to my library queue as I'm not planning far enough ahead (something which I am sure will …

July was another busy month with job interviews and some traveling so I didn't quite hit my goal and I did read a book I had finished in the past because I felt like revisiting it. That's something I typically don't do, but I didn't want to read something new …

June was a pretty busy month due to looking for a job and the associated interviews and studying but I was still able to get some reading in. I've been having a pretty hard time reading non-fiction books but tried again this month, it went about as well as I …

I only finished two books in May due to being busy in my personal life, but am satisfied with what I read. Hopefully June will be more productive as I have a few shorter books in my queue, but there's also a few longer ones. I also need to make …

I would consider April a total failure for reading. At the beginning of the month I decided I wanted to try and focus on more self improvement and reflection style books, but hadn't checked many of these out on time, and wasn't very motivated to read. I only finished one …

In March I finished 5 books and met my goal. Part of this was sticking to my rule that if I'm not pulled in by the 50th page I put it down and move on, and part of it was simply selecting better books. I also read one book that …

This month I only finished 2 books and both of those were completed in the first week of February. I'll discuss the other books I didn't finish as well since there were 2 of them. This was a pretty bad month simply because I read a couple of books that …