2025 was the year of Monk Mode, quiet environments and deep thinking. ### Information Theory - [Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI](https://www.ynharari.com/book/nexus/) - _favorite_ • [The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the…

I love putting these together becuase it reveals to me my obsessions over the past year. As a (rather upsetting) election year, you can see that I spent awhile fixating on America and contemporary culture, trying to figure out "why…

What a year, what a year! This was a pretty varied one for me, with some high highs and some lowwww lows. I'm still on my non-fiction reading kick, but my attention has been seeping outwards in different directions. I've been…

I've just finished Jenny Odell's latest book "[Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61358639)," which is chock-full of mediations and ways to rethink the (western) modernized relationship to time. Highly recommend! Part of this book reviews the rise of [Scientific…

Today I went digging back in my portfolio and tried to pin down when I switched over to using UI frameworks, instead of rolling my own components. Misty-eyed, I rolled around the thought "there's always a last time a parent…

I read [an article in Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00185-z) today about the difficulties of establishing a lunar standard time. Riveting! There are a few pieces of this that I think are interesting to consider: ### Lunar Time Zones The first question would be to decide…

The city's too crowded, no one goes there anymore. In the midst of our astronomical rent prices across all major cities, we have fewer and fewer creative communities. Cheap rent is a prerequisite for artists, musicians, and other creative folks to…

I daresay... I got more fun this year?? Or at least I didn't spend 100% of my time reading climate books. OTOH, I'm turning into a History Dad. Oh, you read a nice novel that you'd like to share? Sorry friend,

Wow, what a year! In terms of general reading themes, I started with a heavy climate-focus at the beginning of the year. Climate change is a [hyperobject](https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.1/introducing-the-idea-of-hyperobjects), and it’s useful to approach it from varying disciplines and rhetorical techniques. Midway through…

This year was hard for me, and also everyone else I know. Sometimes I used reading for escapism, and other times I wanted to learn more about basically… why are things so bad right now. Not the most fun, but…

🤠 yeehaw Circa January 2017 I decided to "get back into reading," and for some reason was unable to stick with anything but dystopian sci-fi novels. 2018 was largely the same (although seriously hmu if you want sci-fi recs). In 2019,