2021
Books
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
- All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
- Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer
In Progress
- The Kalevala compiled by Elias Lonnrott
- The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
- The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage by Will and Ariel Durant
- A Small Farm Future by Chris Smaje
2020
Books
- The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
- This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges
- Something Other Than God by Jennifer Fulwiler
- A Guide for the Perplexed by E.F. Schumacher
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and
Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer - The Courage to be Happy by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
- A Liberated Mind by Steven C. Hayes
- Broken Stars edited by Ken Liu
- Against Transhumanism by Richard A.L. Jones
- What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger
In progress:
- The Kalevala compiled by Elias Lonnrott
- The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
- The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage by Will and Ariel Durant
Abandoned:
- 5 Day Weekend (1/2)
- Thinking in Bets (1/2)
Short Fiction
- The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
- The Jar by Luigi Pirandello
- Two Gallants by James Joyce
- The Downward Path to Wisdom by Katherine Anne Porter
- Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson
- Desertion by Clifford D. Simak
- Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delaney
- Victory Unintentional by Isaac Asimov
- The Mad Moon by Stanley G. Weinbaum
- The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
- A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke
- Looking for Mr. Green by Saul Bellow
- Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell
- Simon Magus by Danilo Kiš
- The Mirror of the Unkown by Danilo Kiš
- Last Respects by Danilo Kiš
- A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong
- Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
- Sabbath Wine by Barbara Krasnoff
- The Long Fall Up by William Ledbetter
- Strange Eden by Philip K Dick
- Neutron Star by Larry Niven
- Broken Stars by Tang Fei
- The Hurt Pattern by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Lieber
- "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
- The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
- Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kundera
- The Conjurer Made off With the Dish by Naguib Mahfouz
- Palimpsest by Charles Stross
- First Love by Samuel Beckett
- Henne Fire by Isaak Bashevis Singer
- Seven Storeys by Dino Buzatti
- Adventure of a Traveler by Italo Calvino
- Rain by Mercedes Rodoreda
- The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing
- One Arm by Yasunari Kawabata
- The Bookstore at the End of America by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Pilgrimage by William Maxwell
- Spring in Fialta by Vladimir Nabokov
- Nomad and Viper by Amos Oz
- The Six Fingers of Time by R.A. Lafferty
- Sister Imelda by Edna O'Brien
- Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
- The Deal by Leonard Michaels
- The Chosen Husband by Mavis Gallant
- First Flight by Mary Robinette Kowal
- The Contest by Grace Paley
- Patriotism by Yukio Mishima
Essays and Articles (incomplete list):
Expand
- https://www.topic.com/the-fire-at-eagle-creek
- https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-elusive-dingo
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-the-greek-oracles
- https://splinternews.com/how-to-not-die-in-america-1822555151
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/you-really-dont-want-to-know-what-its-like-to-be-a-right-whale-these-days/566009/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-cells-communicate-with-mechanical-pulses-not-electric-signals/
- https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/water/compassionate-substance
- https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2017-adaptation/starship-or-canoe-where-will-our-future-adaptations-be
- https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a53820/how-to-cure-fear-of-heights/
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/dr-space-junk-unearths-the-cultural-landscape-of-the-cosmos
- https://www.hcn.org/issues/49.6/inside-the-dangerous-and-unpredictable-behavior-of-wildfire
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/daniel-dennetts-science-of-the-soul
- https://www.outsideonline.com/2167116/david-haskell-speaks-trees
- https://blr.med.nyu.edu/content/archive/2017/spring/monkeys
- https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-island-wolves/
- https://story.californiasunday.com/moxxly-breast-pump
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/i-ran-away-to-a-remote-scottish-island-it-was-perfect
- https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/goals-perseverance
- https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/5/244325-will-risc-v-revolutionize-computing/fulltext
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/paging-dr-hamblin-cloth-masks-wash/614479/
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/cancers-invasion-equation
- https://www.vogue.com/article/sinead-bovell-model-artificial-intelligence
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/15/uighur-genocide-xinjiang-china-surveillance-sterilization/
- https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization
- https://psmag.com/magazine/tragedy-of-the-common
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/two-stars-slammed-into-each-other-and-solved-half-of-astronomys-problems-what-comes-next/
- https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/890-spinning-in-space
- https://svpg.com/team-objectives-overview/
- https://www.outsideonline.com/2143191/detective-northern-oddities
- https://carolchen.me/blog/founding-bad/
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/18/will-the-pandemic-blow-up-college-in-america-368067
- https://letter.wiki/conversation/852
- https://letter.wiki/conversation/789
- https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26290/we-will-beat-cancer/
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yuval-noah-harari-extract-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancraig/2020/06/05/covid-is-turning-top-colleges-into-karens/#6c5849826923
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancraig/2017/02/23/rise-of-the-anti-credential/#4fed58d965de
- https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/style/julia-cameron-the-artists-way.html
Films:
2019
Books
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
- Late Bloomers by Rich KarlGaard
- Ultralearning by Scott Young
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- Possum Living by Dolly Freed
- Twelve Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson
- The Discourses of Epictetus
- The Scapegoat by Rene Girard
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Arguably: Selected Essays by Christopher Hitchens
Abandoned
- 100 Side Hustles [3/4]
Sequential Art and Narrative
- The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell
- Saga vols 4-8
- Ms Marvel: No Normal by Wilson & Alphona
- Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen
- HellBlazer: The Devil You Know
- HellBlazer: The Fear Machine
- Moon Knight: Crazy Runs in the Family (Bemis and Burrows)
- Moon Knight: Phases (Bemis and Burrows)
- Bastard by Max de Radigues
- Love and Rockets New Stories #2 (Hernandez)
Films:
2018 and Earlier
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