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The Rock Warrior's WayBook

by Arno Ilgner

Who uses, recommends or left The Rock Warrior's Way, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jamie Brandon
Programmer in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming languages and building tools; author of the Imp/Zest language experiments.
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While notionally a book about climbing, it's really about what the author calls 'personal power' - the ability to act effectively in the world - and all the ways that that power can be drained by ego, fear, comfort-seeking, and even poor definitions of success and failure.

His standing "Reads that lasted" page — books and essays that had a lasting impact on him. The page carries no visible date; 2026-08-20 is its Last-Modified header.

scattered-thoughts.net ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.