BOOKS

Farsighted - Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

This was read for book club in July. Join to get all the discussion on the book. While Johnson has some good ideas we can put into practice, he takes far too long telling us stories to get them

MAYBE NONFICTION Decisions Pyschology
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The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han

While there are many great ideas to pique your interest, I couldn’t help but think that I needed to read all the other philosophy the author cites to fully make sense of his arguments. This is clearl

MAYBE NONFICTION Attention Burnout
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The Other Valley - Scott Alexander Howard

Scott Alexander Howard

The story starts off slow and a bit sad as we follow 16-year-old Odile who is a lonely girl after her only friend moved to a different part of town. Her life starts to look up as she is befriended by

RECOMMENDED FICTION Time travel
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Clear Thinking - Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish, of Farnham Street fame, brings us a book that is intended to help us think clearly. The first half is all about defining the enemies of clear thinking and the second is about putting c

MAYBE NONFICTION Learning Productivity Thinking
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Limit of Vision - Linda Nagata

Linda Nagata

This book explores the evolution of human-kind as the combine with LOV's, artificial brains designed by humans, in what at times appears to be a race to "beat" AI and at times feels like a slapped to

MAYBE FICTION Science Fiction
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Wildwood Imperium - Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy

This is the third book in the Wildwood Chronicles and we pickup shortly after the events of the third book where Prue and the residents of Wildwood banded together to thwart the plans of the former Q

RECOMMENDED FICTION Fantasy
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The Siren's Call - Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes

The Siren's Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don't want. We don't really want to doom scroll, but it's hard to fight the generated content that gets p

RECOMMENDED NONFICTION Attention Productivity Social Media
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Making it So - Patrick Steward

Patrick Stewart

This was a wonderful look back at the career of Patrick Stewart. I love that he was comfortable enough to share many embarrassing stories, and reflect on how uptight he was in the beginning of his ca

RECOMMENDED NONFICTION Memoir
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Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros

This book is much slower for the first 2/3rds than the first two are. The world now knows about the real fight against Venin, and has some type of truce between formerly warring nations to push back

RECOMMENDED FICTION Fantasy
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Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros

Iron Flame continues from the cliff hanger in Fourth Wing, with Violet coming to grips that her brother is in fact alive and the love of her life is leading a revolution because society has been dece

RECOMMENDED FICTION Fantasy
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