Why We Sleep

I have a hunch that most people who identify as "book readers" like to read before bed. In fact, I'm confident that's where a lot of readers get most ...

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

As an engineer with a fair amount of professional experience, I found Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann to be extremely illumi...

All the Wrong Moves

You know how some people hate movie trailers? Like, they'd rather watch movies without seeing the trailer first because it'll usually spoil some thing...

Range

After reading a few of these pop-social-science books, they really start to sound the same. It's a repetitive formula that becomes a chore to read thr...

The Mezzanine

I was in riding in a car with a couple friends recently. One of them was talking about a book she just finished called American Psycho and how much sh...

Norwegian Wood

There's something really entrancing about reading Murakami. It's easy to read, but not because it's simple writing. His use of pace and language is rh...

ALESSIO RASTANI BITCOIN 2013

It's time to update my website....

PRODAJA BITCOINA

I like stuff. I decided to recognize the stuff that I believe is the best stuff out of all the stuff last year. I did this in 2020 and I've done it ag...

BITCOIN DEALER

I like stuff. Like books, clearly, but also other stuff. Here's a list of my favourite music, film, and TV from this year....

IS BITCOIN GOING TO KEEP RISING

Reading Kafka was not the easiest. His writing was often difficult to parse and understand. I got lost sometimes; trying to maintain a grip on the det...

BITCOIN REMAINING

I did an internship after I finished the 3rd year of college. This opportunity was optional in the engineering program I was in—12 to 16 months of rea...

HOW MANY UNMINED BITCOINS ARE LEFT

Just left the airport; Beijing decided to welcome us with a humid 33°C evening, apparently the hottest day of the month so far. Richard and I are bein...