Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier – Edward Glasser
Cities are great. I will die on this hill.
Non-Fiction
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It – Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow should be required reading for anyone living through the tragedy that is modern times.
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning – Justin E. H. Smith
An argument that we should look at the internet in a slightly different way.
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? – Michael J. Sandel
Despite the title, the book really highlights a massive and widespread problem in our modern society.
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Word Perfect – Susie Dent
A less coffee table-ish book from Susie Dent
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World – Parmy Olson
Parmy Olson is talented, but not even she can make the AI race interesting to me.
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Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth – Robin Hanson
A waste of time which you shouldnt read
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How the World Really Works – Vaclav Smil
We are oil dependent. That is all
Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man – Norah Vincent
One gender does tend to assume, for better or worse, what life as the other gender is life. Norah Vincent had a stab at it.
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Failures in Polymathy 