About
Ashton George
Designer. Developer. Driver. Mechanic. Rocket Engineer. Based in Seattle, WA.
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Go Star GazingMore soon.
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Compendium of Knowledge
My highlight reel of books, audio, and wisdom from others in the world.
Live Consciously
Audiobooks
- Be Obsessed Or Be Average - Grant Cardone
- All It Takes Is A Goal - Jon Acuff
- Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
I highly recommend listening to the audiobooks for “Be Obsessed Or Be Average,”
“All It Takes Is A Goal,” and similar where the authors read their own
material.
These two authors in particular add extra commentary on top of their work.
Also you have to listen to the audiobook/podcast style of Goggins’ “Can’t Hurt Me”!
Goggins and Skolnick turned it into a podcast-style book reading.
Great to hear them step back and reflect on passages and topics in the book.
Practical Wisdom
Practicing the wisdom in these books changes your life for good.
Books
- The Joys of Compounding - Gautam Baid
- The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
- No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Visualization Is Everything
Visual systems are humanity’s hidden architects — powerful, primal, and too often overlooked.
Books
- Visual Systems - Gwendolyn D. Galsworth
- Designing Brand Identity, fourth edition - Alina Wheeler
- How to See, How to Draw - Claudia Nice
Programming
The closest thing I’ve found to magic, ever.
Books
- The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
- Clean Code - Robert C. Martin
- Pro C# 10 with .NET 6 - Andrew Troelsen, Phil Japikse
Life Stories & Anecdotes
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverant and original manner possible. - Richard Feynman
Books
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton