2015 Year in Review

Here is a list of lists that superficially catalogs my activities of the past year while leaving out everything of significance. Happy new year!

Reading List

I made my way through 54 books in 2015 (it averages to about a book a week but my secret is binge reading whenever I’m traveling, especially long-haul flights). If I had to call out any significant themes in my reading this past year, the primary was that of the Black condition; and a secondary was that of personal growth and a maturing of morality and life philosophy.

Journey Through Genius
Nothing to Envy
Partner Track
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
How We Got to Now
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Creativity, Inc.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Girl on the Train
The Art of Fielding
Americanah
Give and Take
Citizen: An American Lyric
Half of a Yellow Sun
All the Light We Cannot See
Consider the Lobster
Work Rules!
Replay
Elon Musk
The Player of Games
The Remains of the Day
Co-Active Coaching
Modern Romance
The 5 Love Languages
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Between the World and Me
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Ghettoside
We Should All Be Feminists
Men Explain Things to Me
Half Way Home
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Everything I Never Told You
Just Mercy
Daring Greatly
Vagabonding
Ancillary Justice
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
Why Not Me?
The New Jim Crow
Straight Man
Reinventing American Health Care
On Writing
What If?
The Nightingale
Don’t Think of an Elephant!
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Souls of Black Folk
The Road
Birds of a Lesser Paradise
The Road to Character
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts

Travel Log

I racked up more than 50,000 miles in 2015 and I somehow still don’t have status. I’m definitely doing it wrong.

New York City, for Galentine’s Day and adventuring with a friend
Washington, DC, for a stint with the U.S. Digital Service
Austin, for SXSW
San Diego, to keynote the OLP Women’s Symposium
Tahoe, for the Mayfield Fellows Program 20 year reunion

New York City, for the WIRED Business Conference
Banff, to hike the alpine wilderness

Delaware, to be a bridesmaid in my college roommate’s wedding
Singapore, for another college friend’s wedding
Indonesia, because I was already in the region

LA, because why waste a long weekend
Philadelphia, for the Forbes 30u30 Summit
Houston, for Grace Hopper
Santa Fe, for a girls’ weekend
Miami, for Summit at Sea
India, for another college friend’s wedding