movies dumb money (2023) - watched this on the plane. if you remember this time, it was bonkers and kind of beautiful at the same time. (4/5) the gentlemen (2019) - watched this in the plane, guy ritchie definitely has a style. fun, solid cast, a couple of novel twists. (3.5/5) please don’t destroy: the treasure of foggy mountain (2023) - watched this on peacock. i fell asleep through a chunk of it....
goal 30 books this year. let’s get crackin' 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) rnotes 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
notes bookshop link this kept cropping up in the stuff i’ve been reading over the past couple of months. i figured it was time to dig into this again. i read this last in the 1990s. the book holds up extremely well and the mass suspension of critical thought and utopian dystopia it describes seems like something we’ve done a great job of slipping into ever more firmly over the past 10 years....
notes bookshop link this is a classic, full stop. highly recommended reading. i don’t know where to really begin on this. a few random thoughts. it’s the first time i’ve read/seen someone provide a harsh critique of sesame street. i really didn’t see that coming, though, i’d been paying attention quite assiduously to the book up to that point. i should have. the arguement here is that huxley was right, and we’d be swimming in amusement or a need for continuous dopamine hits....
books the high sierra: a love story (kim stanley robinson) i’m a recent convert to KSR’s stuff. i’ve loved all of it and this is no exception. this is the first bit of non-fiction i’ve read by him. honestly, i don’t know if he has more. having done a limited amount of hiking in the sierra’s, i was hooked and burned through this faster than i expected to. a book like this makes you question your life decisions....