In my yearly review I wrote a good bit about my favorite books of 2018. There not necessarily design books, but, I think the most interesting were:

• Enlightenment Now
• Deep Work
• The Rational Optimist
• Seeing Like a State (Not for everyone, but I found it interesting)
• Sapiens

Right now I'm reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It's been slow to start. I almost gave it up, but now that I'm deep into WWI I've found the book incredibly interesting.

Based on recommendations—mostly from friends and colleagues, I've got the following books lined up for 2019:

• Why We Sleep
• Factfulness
• Empire: Howard Hughes
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett

I've always respected Eli despite disagreeing with him on some things.

People get so heated over others with differing opinions. His articles are always well thought out. And he frequently responds to commentary both here and on Twitter.

It's possible to like, but not always agree with someone. I wish more people understood that.

I strongly dislike using plugins with Sketch for this reason. Dynamic Button screwed up a bunch of my files when it stopped being supported.

Paddy was an exception and has made my life easer. Understandable, but sad to see it stop being supported. Hopefully, Sketch will implement this feature soon.

I've spent a ton of time over the last two weeks fiddling with forum software. Discourse, in particular, was easy to setup and had a ton of moderation features.

I'd encourage anyone interested in building a community to give it a shot. Maybe it would make a nice weekend project?

Decent article, but I can't help but focus on the lack of capital letters. It's driving me crazy.

I just hope they end up releasing a 15" without Touchbar. Apple doesn't admit mistakes very often. It will be interesting to see if they correct it.

Follow-on question—how does it feel for files with 30 or more artboards?

It's not obvious that the picture is related to the password field. Had I not had the preface that this helped visualize the password, I probably would have thought it was a gif or something.

Regardless, it's a cool effect.

Love the renders—especially the the eye that follow your mouse in the Follow the Money section.

Headline seems a bit too vague though.