# non-fiction book (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover non-fiction book. Page: Feed: --- ## [It's time to stop letting perfect be the enemy of good](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-letting-perfect) _2026-08-13 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ a light-hearted romp through my unnewsworthy week in & they key to a contented life ## [Making good decisions for yourself and your work](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/making-good-decisions-for-yourself) _2026-08-06 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ How I'm avoiding falling into a pit of post-residency blues // a few things I've been playing with this week ## [The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-mechanical-miracle-that-ruined) _2026-08-05 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age ## ['No, Impossible', and other recurring creative motifs](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/no-impossible-and-other-recurring) _2026-07-26 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ residency report // open studio and thoughts on returning home ## [Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/quality-non-fiction-books-are-the) _2026-07-22 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ ...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them ## [The suspended reality of life on residency](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/the-suspended-reality-of-life-on) _2026-07-19 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ residency report // becoming more artist in my mindset, going where the energy flows ## [Who are you?](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/who-are-you) _2026-07-12 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ Residency report // settling in, seeing what's here, surfacing new project questions ## [I'm starting a new project!](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/im-starting-a-new-project) _2026-07-02 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ Exploring RIFUGIO/REFUGE in Val Taleggio, Italy - Rocks. Mountains. Listening. Did I say, rocks? ## [I don't want to talk about climate chaos but I'm going to.](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-to-talk-about-climate) _2026-06-25 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ Four small (big) actions for surviving the despair and devastation of increasing heat-domes in a burning world ## [Best Reads of 2026 so far](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/best-reads-of-2026-so-far) _2026-06-18 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ a mid-year wrap up of my favourites as the solstice approaches ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pZyzw42iUfyq) _2026-06-18 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Process notes: 4 thoughts on creativity this week](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/process-notes-4-thoughts-on-creativity) _2026-06-11 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ Creativity as participation (after Nick Cave) | learning poetry by heart | making preparations | writing within the hour ## [Loving the world back to life](https://ruthallen.substack.com/p/loving-the-world-back-to-life) _2026-06-04 · Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS) · Breccia by Ruth Allen_ authentic movement & witnessing | loss of the sacred | sea dancing | at least two powerful encounters | a drafted poem about muntjac deer ## [What is happening to publishing?](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publishing) _2026-05-19 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ Literature's new AI scandal and why good non-fiction books will always matter ## [Why they stopped building wooden stupas](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/survivorship-bias-in-history) _2026-05-14 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ On survivorship bias in history ## [Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field?](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/are-vintage-llms-the-start-of-a-new) _2026-04-29 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930 ## [The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-handmade-beauty-of-machine-age) _2026-04-22 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams ## [Photos from my time in Iran, 2017](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/photos-from-my-time-in-iran-2017) _2026-03-31 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ Travels through Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis, and Yazd ## [The Secret History of Knocking on Wood](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/neolithic-habits-machine-age-tools) _2026-02-24 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ Most of human nature is never written down — and machines can't learn it from text ## [What is happening to writing?](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-writing) _2026-02-18 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ "Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI ## [Summary of Readings](http://erenon.hu/posts/2025-12-11-summary-of-readings/) _2025-12-11 · Posts on erenon.hu_ A non-exhaustive list of non-fiction books in no particular order I read recently, with some recommendation. This post was inspired by the similar posts of Eli Bendersky . Faith The Old Testament . Reading it was a challenge of the faith. Long and often difficult to understand. It is interesting to perceive how the faith of authors change over time, as they refine their understanding of their… ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PF4WXV3bs43v) _2025-12-10 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-i-have-been-writing-a-niche-history) _2025-12-04 · Benjamin Breen · Res Obscura_ A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary ## [Multidimensional Make Targets](http://erenon.hu/posts/2025-03-18-multimake/) _2025-03-18 · Posts on erenon.hu_ This is about describing targets in GNU Make that depend on many parameters that need to be sampled. Example use-case 1 : There’s a simulation with many input parameters, e.g: weather simulation, with current temperature, humidity, date, duration parameters. You want to run the simulation for some combinations of these parameters. Example use-case 2 : There’s a remote database the can… ## [To hang an Icon](http://erenon.hu/posts/2025-03-14-to-hang-an-icon/) _2025-03-14 · Posts on erenon.hu_ I wanted to hang a picture, in a way that it doesn’t touch the wall directly, using a protruding hanger. If the hanger is difficult to observe, it makes a nice floating effect. I couldn’t find a “µ” shaped piece of metal, and I don’t have right drills for metal either, so I decided to 3D-print the appropriate hanger. This would have been my first time doing this.… ## [Restore file from editor memory](http://erenon.hu/posts/2024-10-14-restore-from-memory/) _2024-10-14 · Posts on erenon.hu_ I was editing a large text file over sshfs using nvim . Probably due to a lose network cable, during save, the connection broke, and only half of the data reached the remote computer, the other half remained in the send buffers of the kernel. The editor was configured to use no swapfiles, therefore it wrote the target file directly: at this point the second half of the file was lost , and the…