Tag: books
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Exit Farming: Survival in an Enshittified World
Cory Doctorow gave us the word Enshittification. Sean Carlton gives us the manual. Exit Farming starts from a blunt recognition: the system is not broken. The exhaustion, the subscriptions, the debt, the fragility—these are successful outcomes. They keep people dependent and predictable. Carlton’s contribution is not rage or reform, but literacy. Learn how systems farm…
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Exploring Chaos Theory: From Niagara Falls to Science
My wife and I recently took a trip to Niagara Falls, staying on the Canadian side. I also just finished reading Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick. As I looked at the falls and the rushing Niagara River, thinking about all of that turbulence enhanced the experience. James Gleick’s Chaos: Making a New…
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Napoleon
I am currently reading Napoleon by Andrew Roberts. He has a lot of detail on the battles, but the maps in the book are not very helpful to me to understand what happened. I found a YouTube channel that does a good job of illustrating the battles (https://www.youtube.com/@EpichistoryTv). If I watch the videos in conjunction…
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
I read this book on a recommendation from my son. I don’t usually read fantasy and am more of a fan of hard science fiction, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Review of The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, the first book in The First Law trilogy, masterfully blends sharp…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Here are my highlights and notes: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Pirsig, Robert M. Part I Note – Chapter 1 > Page 3 · Location 108 I have read this book before at least two times. Why read it again? I remember starting the sequel, Lila, which I do…
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Highlights and Note Taking
I am working on reviewing and summarizing the highlights and notes from books I have read relatively recently. I read these books in the Kindle app either on my Windows 11 PC or my Samsung tablet. I had also been reading them on the Amazon Web Reader on my Ubuntu PC. https://read.amazon.com But with the…
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