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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. One hundred and fourteen books. I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. I was busier, happier.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I read a lot of books this year but in many ways it wasn’t a great year for me (it’s improving) so I have mixed feelings about the sheer length of this list and am hoping to read LESS this year. I started to read 144 books and finished 142 but kept up with a few I maybe shouldn’t have. average read per month: 12.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I started and finished 115 books. One more book got added to my best in show category: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, though I felt like I read a lot of good books this year. Here are stats for the books that I finished. ebook to book ratio: 63:52. Here are stats for the books that I finished.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. Incorporate book and media related art, including projections? They still haven't.

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Why I care about a moonshot for care

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Mariana Mazzucato has taken the idea as far as anyone including in her latest book. And, in a nice piece of timing, that is the title of Michael Barber’s new book in his “deliverology” sequence. You’ll need to read the book (and so will I). But here’s the thing.

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Three Options for Managing References in Grant Proposals and Other Documents

Peak Proposals

Zotero Screenshot of Zotero’s landing page Zotero launched in 2006. Paperpile Screenshot of Paperpile’s landing page ( www.paperpile.com ) Paperpile came out in 2012. Although it doesn’t integrate with Google Docs, you can still use Mendeley to find and organize references and export a bibliography to add to your document.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

8] The privatization of Fannie Mae in 1968 by the Johnson administration was explicitly done to take government spending off the books under the pressure of Vietnam War era “guns and butter” budget strains. [9] 20] The Federal Reserve Bank’s combined balance sheet in 2006 was just $.81 81 trillion.

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