Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. I might just survey the rest and not read every word.
How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne by Bakewell. Finished it. Lots of good things in here.
Ongoing reading projects
These are books that I plan to take my time with.
Maybe years.
Complete Essays by Montaigne.
The Syntopicon - So dense with ideas.
Basic Economics by Sowell.
Complete Fictions by Borges.
What I’m making
Notes.
Several photos.
Field recordings.
(bullet-ish) journal; this has really been taking off lately (12/23-05/24). This has been my most successful project so far. Now I am laying on more re-reading of older notes too.
What I’m listening to
Podcasts:
Search Engine May 10, 2024 on facial recognition. “Our faces follow us around the internet” and “we’re all internet famous now”. Welcome to the Gataca/Minority Report future.
Search Engine March 8, 2024 on those weird scammy text message we all are getting. It’s a pig butchering scam, but it’s also human trafficking. And they are now a sad reminder of just how very unprepared humanity is for the world that we have built for ouselves. And it will continue to get stranger and stranger at a pace that is both too slow to notice but too fast to process or realistically prepare for. We’re going to be more or less off balance for a while more yet.
The Ezra Klein Show on the Gaza protest. I thought it was very helpful for understanding the current state of things in a more nuanced way. It was timely too, I had just started asking about the campus protests. Kind of a scary moment.
What I’m cooking
Still lower on the cooking rate, work has been busy.
Overnight white bread rounds. So good. After more than ten years of cooking from Flour Water Salt Yeast, I’ve finally selected a favorite/default recipe.