Books I read in 2022 and 2023

It's been awhile since I've posted anything here, which is terrible but I have reasons. 2022 and 2023 were tough years. My dad died in January of 2022, and the prior four months or so involved a lot of caregiving. Then after that, there was straightening out his affairs and his apartment. At the end of 2018, mom died, too. So that's two significant deaths, and their aftermaths, over a bit more than 3 years. These years were also dominated by acqusitions: First, Iora was aquired by One Medical in September of 2021, which brought a lot of integration work into 2022. Then in 2023, One Medical was acquired by Amazon. At Iora I had been the VP of Technology, including security and technology compliance; in July of 2022 I became the Senior Director of Information Security at One Medical. So things have been busy with a lot of changes.

As I look back on these years, it's intersting that I did manage to read 53 books in 2021, which must have been a kind of salve and distraction after mom died. Since 2021, though I read a paltry (for me) 33 and 30 books.

So I think I'm going to take this as a resolution and challenge for 2024: Read more. This is probably going to be a good year for not reading the paper and getting too caught up in politics, which I may need to do anyway, but not as a time-killer.

2022

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Dad's death made 2022 an unsteady year emotionally, and I didn't feel like reading much that was serious. Maybe that's not quite true: Apparently I read the new Franzen but I don...

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