books

goal target: 30 - read: 12 (so far) if i were a better man, i’d do something focused and high minded. like targeting research in a specific vein of study. i am not that man. books note: this is a running list. (in reverse chronological order) how should a person be? (sheila heti) i added this to my queue based on reading the work of art last year. i was left with the impression that this sparked a fair amount of debate and/or there was a fair amount of discussion around the format (somewhere between memoir and fiction) and the depiction of women-women friendships....

goal target: 30 - read: 31 books liberty’s daughter (naomi kritzer) notes green earth (kim stanley robinson) notes the future of the responsible company: what we’ve learned from patagonia’s first 50 years (yvon chouinard, vincent stanley) notes the death and life of the great lakes (dan egan) notes a hacker’s mind (bruce schneier) notes shop class as soulcraft (matthew b. crawford) notes the lost cause (cory doctorow) notes a sand county almanac (aldo leopold) notes under a white sky: the nature of thefuture (elizabeth kolbert) notes number go up (zeke faux) notes blindsight (peter watts) notes the happiness curve: why life gets better after 50 (jonathon rauch) notes range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world (david eptstein) notes master of the revels (nicole galland) notes writing to learn (william zinnser) notes the resistance: digital dissent in the age of machines (joel achenbach) 2034: a novel of the next world war (ackerman, stavridis) notes numbers don’t lie (vaclav smil) notes the message (ta-nehisi coates) notes polostan (neal stephenson) notes the art of thinking (vincent ruggiero) notes amusing ourselves to death (neil postman) notes erasing history (jason stanley) notes looking at photographs (john szarkowski) the real internet architecture (zave, rexford) notes the creative act: a way of being (rick rubin) notes antarctica (kim stanley robinson) notes last entry point: stories of danger and death in the boundary waters (joe friedrichs) notes brave new world (aldous huxley) notes our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution (francis fukuyama) notes al franken, giant of the senate (al franken) the work of art (adam moss) notes

2020 media diet what a shitty year. i/we wasted time with the following. movies Borat Subsequent Movie Film… Da 5 Bloods MidSommar Emma The Invisible Man Downhill The Last Black Man in San Francisco First Reformed tenet the midnight sky uncut gems eurovision miss americana the lovebirds enola holmes plenty more, few memorable. this may just be a function of 2020. tv so much tv. i am not proud of this....