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
notes bookshop link this was a dense and often redundant read with a lot of the classic, academic need to spend a lot of time on (re)naming things. to summarize … tunnels are the new internet. you might not necessarily realize/recognize what’s going on, but the focus of today’s internet is no longer end-to-end connectivity and addressing, etc. it’s what you can accomplish with tunnels. this is true, pretty much everything that you’re going to do in internet and enterprise engineering for the remainders of our life time is going to be in the service of some form of tunneling....
notes bookshop link this was a disturbingly current read. it’s reasonably fresh off the press and i wrapped it up a couple of days before the election. it’s an exhaustively researched and referenced work that digs into the politically charged battles over education and the desire to create a glossy, positive history from those on the right. there’s a lot to unpack in this book despite it’s pretty short length. it ranges from discussing the german repackaging of history pre-WW2 to florida’s book bans and dismantling of their instutuions of higher education....
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....