Bryan Jenks

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Bryan is Currently Reading

Bryan Jenks is currently reading

He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)

by Shirtaloon (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 24, 2026 10:20PM

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Shunryu Suzuki

bookshelves: favorite-books, 5-star, philosophy, non-fiction, currently-reading

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read in February 2023

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Bryan Jenks said: " This will likely be one of the best books I read this year if not one of the best I read ever. I cannot express how impactful and penetrating the wisdom in these assembled words has been to me at this stage of my life and just as I was beginning Zaze ...more "

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Feb 03, 2023 10:10AM · see review

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This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Bryan’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim

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It may not be the most elegant piece of software she’s seen, but things that have been in production for twenty years rarely are. Software is like a city, constantly undergoing change, needing renovations and repair.

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Bryan’s Quotes

“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

tags: inspirational, philosophy, zen

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“There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one comes to warm themselves by it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent van Gogh

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
― Henry Ford

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