reads
These are some books that I've read throughout the years. The books that are bolded are my favorites, on some axes including how fun, life-altering, or generally engaging they were.
2022
- Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott
- Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
- Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
2021
- Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- Into the Woods, Bill Bryson
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
- A Good Provider is One Who Leaves, Jason DeParle
- Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
- An Unquiet Mind, Kay Jamison
- Mental, Jaime Lowe
- Gorilla and the Bird, Zack McDermott
- The Collected Schizophrenias, Esme Wang
2020
- Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
- The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
- The Plague, Albert Camus
- Normal People, Sally Rooney
- Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
- Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
- The Mind and the Market, Jerry Muller
2019
- Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh
- Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney
- Severance, Ling Ma
- Ultralearning, Scott Young
Short form
These are shorter pieces I've read (blogs, essays, etc.) that I've found valuable.
- "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change", Neil Postman (1998)
- "Technological change is not additive; it is ecological...A new medium does not add something; it changes everything."