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How the globalisation is coming to an end, how the US Navy made Chinese power possible, how the 21st Century will be American after all, and many other counter-intuitive things. A must read IMO.
* Atlas of AI, by Kate Crawford
Politics of AI: power, exploitation, colonialism, global surveillance and control... Fascinating. Another must read.
* Three Simple Steps, Trevor Blake - Biography based inspiration for mental success
* The Price You Pay for College, Ron Lieber - Data driven look at the true cost of college for parents and teens
* Die With Zero, Bill Perkins - Counterpoint to FIRE movement, consider time value of money today vs. saving all for a future that might not exist
* Economics of Star Trek, Rick Webb - Exploration of how finances could work in the fictional world of the Federation
* The Creature from Jekyll Island, G Edward Griffin - How did the Federal Reserve come to exist?
Illuminations, by Alan Moore, the author famous for watchmen, v for vendetta, etc. A short story collection with some unique story structures and great settings
Early last year I read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I found it deeply affecting. The quality of the writing is incredible and I enjoyed the structure which alternates progressing the main story and vignettes of life around the main characters. But mostly I was shocked to realize how little has changed in ~90 years in terms of worker exploitation and the ability to fall through the cracks in the USA.
This year I got into a history binge after I finally got around to reading Caro's Master of the Senate this January. It was so good I'm already ready to read it again. I used to be scared of tackling big books because I don't feel strongly committed. But with these I did audiobooks for the first time, while cleaning and driving and cooking and it has made reading big books merely a matter of time. Other than Caro's b…
My best nonfiction read was The 1619 Project. It's a heavy read, but I highly recommend it. The runner up would be Christian Livermore's We Are Not OK. Best fiction read was Tim Winton's Breath or (there's probably some recency bias at play here) Sebastian de Castel's Traitor's Blade. I also read a few comic books. I love the East of West series (at least the first three books).
Wow! Immediately downvoted, on the topic of books?!? I wonder which one triggered such a negative reaction.
dawn of everything by graeber & wengrow
- The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson Really solid cli-fi (climate-science-fiction). Tells the story of a fictional United Nations that begins to seriously take on the role of ensuring the survival of the human species.
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Shame. I was drawn by the story after reading the summary, until the part where, she fell in love with a married man. I don't know what people find romantic about this nonsense and I hate this stupid trend. Why cannot romantic stories be nice and uncomplicated instead of always involving some stupid love triangle or people cheating on their partners?
> Why cannot romantic stories be nice and uncomplicated Maybe that doesn't make an interesting book?
Comment and then question. - Scattered (How Attention Deficit Disorder originates and what you can do about it) by Gabor Mate Question: how do folks discover new books to read — Goodeads? Friend recommendations? Book Clubs? Any other sort of niche, online recommendation engine? Podcasts?