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2025 was the year of Monk Mode, quiet environments and deep thinking. Information Theory Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI favorite • The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains disliked • Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity disliked •…
I love putting these together becuase it reveals to me my obsessions over the past year. As a (rather upsetting) election year, you can see that I spent awhile fixating on America and contemporary culture, trying to figure out “why are we like this??” This year also included a deeper fixation on health and longetivity — I do believe there was a larger culture shift around this, but I am probably…
What a year, what a year! This was a pretty varied one for me, with some high highs and some lowwww lows. I’m still on my non-fiction reading kick, but my attention has been seeping outwards in different directions. I’ve been enjoying various deep-dives, a vertiable sample platter of cultural quirks. Let me know if you decide to read any of these books — I do love to discuss! :) Systems Upon…
I’ve just finished Jenny Odell’s latest book ” Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock ,” which is chock-full of mediations and ways to rethink the (western) modernized relationship to time. Highly recommend! Part of this book reviews the rise of Scientific Management AKA Taylorism, a movement from the turn of the 19th century that sought to increase workplace efficiency. To do so,…
Today I went digging back in my portfolio and tried to pin down when I switched over to using UI frameworks, instead of rolling my own components. Misty-eyed, I rolled around the thought “there’s always a last time a parent picks up their child” but, you know, focusing on me and how I’ve given up on coding up my own UI components. I think it happened around 2017-2018. It’s a pretty stark…
I read an article in Nature today about the difficulties of establishing a lunar standard time. Riveting! There are a few pieces of this that I think are interesting to consider: Lunar Time Zones The first question would be to decide whether or not to use lunar time zones. Depending on the number of lunar bases, and how far apart they are, it might make sense just to have one single lunar standard…
The city’s too crowded, no one goes there anymore. In the midst of our astronomical rent prices across all major cities, we have fewer and fewer creative communities. Cheap rent is a prerequisite for artists, musicians, and other creative folks to settle down. These full-time corporate jobs suck the life out of you, you ideally want a location where you can get by on a part-time job. A little bit…
I daresay… I got more fun this year?? Or at least I didn’t spend 100% of my time reading climate books. OTOH, I’m turning into a History Dad. Oh, you read a nice novel that you’d like to share? Sorry friend, I only do hard non-fiction on my various niche interests. And boy howdy are you gonna hear me talk about them :) Art Data Map Tech Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a…
Wow, what a year! In terms of general reading themes, I started with a heavy climate-focus at the beginning of the year. Climate change is a hyperobject , and it’s useful to approach it from varying disciplines and rhetorical techniques. Midway through the year, though, I felt kinda saturated with this topics. Which lead to bifurcating themes for the rest of the books: Appreciating the hell out of…
This year was hard for me, and also everyone else I know. Sometimes I used reading for escapism, and other times I wanted to learn more about basically… why are things so bad right now. Not the most fun, but I did learn a lot. Books That Rocked My Worldview This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West (my top book for my 2020) Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of…
🤠 yeehaw Circa January 2017 I decided to “get back into reading,” and for some reason was unable to stick with anything but dystopian sci-fi novels. 2018 was largely the same (although seriously hmu if you want sci-fi recs). In 2019, I blossomed into a person who is able to handle multiple types of books. Below are my favorites, loosely organized by theme. Climate My “most important” category of…