reading

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

recommended: not at all this was not good. it could have been about 80% shorter and still made all of its non-points. not recommended. Annotations: 0,821 SHA-256 b55c5d733a45a1567b4087fea8ed2c9e @steve ulrich [email protected]: 679,28 …

notes bookshop link recommended: highly 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 recommended: yes i picked this up at the local author’s event at the fitger’s bookstore last month. it meanders a bit but pulls you through on an interesting collection of incidents and stories. there are some interesting nuggets in here around the media’s handling of wilderness incidents, cautionary notes re: planning and stories of folks who just weren’t wired for society. oh, and wolves. (just kinda)

notes bookshop link recommended: yes because i’m a sucker for pretty much all things KSR. this was a fun read, pulpy in all of its 1990s aspects with an interesting take on the fictional internet and wrist phones. there’s an interesting meta discussion in here about the relationships between scientists/elites, politicians and the masses at large. some of it parallels the tensions and the lack of trust between the technocrats/scientists in our bureaucracy and society at large with a heaping helping of political messiness....