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Stories are Weapons by Annalee Newitz
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Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different.
on Wed, 10PM
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adrienne maree brown outlines the principles of emergent strategy, drawing from the Earthseed verses in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, as well as other sources as diverse as Bruce Lee, Lao Tzu, ...
on Sat, 3PM
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In The Middle Passage, James Hollis writes: “Grief, for example, is the occasion for acknowledging the value of that which has been experienced.”
on Oct 23
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In The Sea and Summer, Melbourne of the mid-twenty-first century is half buried under the rising sea.
on Oct 22
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In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held dire...
on Oct 18
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The Peripheral by William Gibson
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Drones, haptics, ocular implants, virtual reality, climate change, nanotechnology, celebrity: like all of Gibson’s novels, The Peripheral is a novel of the future that’s entirely about the present.
on Oct 18
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Adam Greenfield proposes a strategy for surviving the climate crisis: Lifehouses, or a network of places of care, mutual aid, resource distribution, and solidarity.
on Oct 4
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labutat
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A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.
on Sep 30
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As I retreat from the socials, something I have been wondering about is how much of the frenetic, restless, too-much feeling I get from them is a product of the algos and the corporate incentives, ...
on Sep 27
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There’s a joke about a writer and her therapist that I’ve seen various versions of over the years. The writer complains about how terrible the writing is, how difficult it is to show up each day, h...
on Sep 26
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Rollo May shares a story from Jules Henri Poincaré, writing in his autobiography. In it, Poincaré describes many long days trying to sort out some mathematical question and finding no solution.
on Sep 25
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In Always Coming Home, a woman named Stone Telling writes the story of her life, beginning with her parents and the first time she meets her father. Of this telling, she writes:
on Sep 18
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The Buddhist view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give man a chance to utilise and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with ot...
on Sep 17
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In the final chapter of Everything for Everyone, M.E. O’Brien interviews Alkasi Sanchez. The conversation takes place in Brooklyn, on May 2, 2072.
on Sep 10
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In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield writes: Stability will be the fundamental value proposition of a certain kind of politics in our time of undoing, and we need to reckon with just how seductive it will...
on Sep 4
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The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
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Is time *out there?* Or is it within us?
on Sep 2
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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
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An expansion of the immensely popular essay of the same title, here David Graeber takes a long hard look at why so many jobs are rank bullshit, and what can be done about it.
on Aug 7
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Psychologist James Hillman borrows from Plato and others and posits that we are each accompanied by a mystical, nonhuman being which accompanies us throughout our lives and through a series of whis...
on Jul 21
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In 1898, Frederick Taylor was hired as a consultant by the Bethlehem Iron Company with the stated mission of improving the efficiency of the workers. It was there that Taylorism morphed from the wh...
on Jul 15
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Hild, now Lady of Elmet and wife to Cian Boldcloak, remains King Edwin’s seer—but what she can see is terrible.
on Jul 1
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Things that were heralded as “laborsaving” devices gave rise to a whole new industry, and to more labor.
on Jun 29
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“Empathy is an illusion at best, or simply—as is said in moments of deep reflection—bullshit!”
on Jun 26
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Unusually hot, dry June weather has me thinking about climate change (of course), which brings me to Ursula Franklin (*of course*) and her earthworm theory of social change:
on Jun 26
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This book has more twists and turns than an actual labyrinth, and short of a few more reads and some dedicated notetaking, I doubt I could speak clearly to what exactly happens between its covers.
on Jun 24
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On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.
on Jun 23
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One of the most inescapable edicts when leading a team is the order to optimize the system towards the organization’s goals.
on May 29
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One of the principles I come back to over and over is adrienne maree brown’s invitation to move at the speed of trust. That is, whenever attempting any effort with other people, prioritize building...
on Apr 14
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Kathryn Schulz posits a vision of wrongness as both the inevitable human condition and a generative source from which creativity, art, brilliance, risk-taking, and so much more arises.
on Apr 12
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In *Being Wrong,* Kathryn Shulz addresses the commonly held myth that we should at all times avoid hedging our bets:
on Apr 11
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In The World of Silence, Max Picard describes silence as an active presence, a kind of independent and infinite substrate upon which all speech emerges from and then descends into. He believes sile...
on Mar 24
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In *The Left Hand of Darkness*, a Terran named Genly Ai travels as envoy to the planet Gethen, known as “Winter” for its ice age climate. There, he visits one of the Fastnesses, where a reclusive p...
on Mar 8
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“Technoableism is a belief in the power of technology that considers the elimination of disability a good thing, something we should strive for.”
on Feb 16
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In the seconds after Fetter is born, his mother kills his shadow.
on Feb 13
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In the fourth and as yet final book of the Steerswoman series, Rowan and Bel return to Donner, where they last barely escaped an attack of dragons.
on Feb 8
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Rowan arrives in Alemath, at the steerswomen’s Annex, searching for information.
on Feb 5
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The second book in the extraordinary Steerswoman Series follows Rowan and her companion, Bel, as they venture into the outskirts: a dangerous, inhospitable land marked by few sources of food and pa...
on Feb 3
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I was talking with someone recently, about some frustrations they had with the way a piece of technology was being used, when they added offhandedly, “But I’m not a Luddite.”
on Nov 13, 2023