Austin Louden

Austin Louden

I’m a software engineer living in San Francisco, California. I help lead iOS development at Notion. Previously, I worked as an engineer and product manager at Pinterest. I’m interested in language learning, functional programming, and endurance sports like marathons and mountaineering.

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Writing

Four books for Spring 2022
Reading
Jan 11, 2022
2021 Year in Review
Jan 1, 2022
Language learning goal: B2 in German by next September
Languages
Oct 26, 2021
Running the Maroon Bells Four Pass Loop in One Day
Adventure
Jul 17, 2020
Running a Sub-3 Hour Marathon and Qualifying for Boston
Fitness
Jan 20, 2020
My rating system for books
Reading
Jan 7, 2020
How I remember what I read
Productivity
Dec 31, 2019
Climbing Mt. Whitney via the Mountaineer's Route
Adventure
May 8, 2019
How I use Notion for journaling, todo lists, and everything else
Productivity
Mar 12, 2019

Book reviews

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
★★★
Jul 19, 2021
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
★★★★
Mar 11, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
★★★★
Jan 4, 2021
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
★★★
May 19, 2020
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
★★★★
Apr 28, 2020
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
★★★
Apr 15, 2020
Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus
★★★
Apr 7, 2020

Learning in the open

Economic Cycles
Finance
Oct 6, 2021
Atoms in Motion
Physics
Aug 20, 2021
Curried Functions
Computer ScienceSwiftFunctional Programming
Aug 6, 2021
Objective-C targets within a Swift package
Computer ScienceSwift
Jul 17, 2021
Futures with Combine
Computer ScienceSwift
May 26, 2021
Dependency Injection
Computer ScienceSwift
May 17, 2021
CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types)
Computer Science
May 15, 2021
Actors
Computer ScienceSwift
Apr 29, 2021