Category: Book Reviews
My Favourite Books of 2024
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Non-Fiction Dark PR First, Grant was kind enough to gift me a physical copy of this book when I said it wasn’t available at my local library. No request from him, just asked for my address and sent a book. In this book the reader is provided with many frameworks to use when they think…
Book Review – Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
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I don’t remember when I first stumbled across Farnham Street but I do remember finding the content very helpful in my journey to be a life-long learner. Thus when I saw Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish I grabbed it hoping for the same feeling of great wisdom being imparted. Parrish wrote this book to help…
Slow Productivity Review
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Slow Productivity is Cal Newport’s 5th entry into the adult productivity space, all of which I’ve read. My first entry into Newport was Deep Work which I wrote two extensive posts about. At the time it was saying all the things I was thinking but had no words for. But since then I’m not sure…
March 2024 Reading
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Fiction Read in March 2024 Liberty’s Daughter – Naomi Kritzer Liberty’s Daughter follows Beck Garrison, who was kidnapped by her father to live on a techno-libertarian seastead. We get to follow Beck as she reunites with the mother she thought was dead, and finds “stuff” for people. Beck is at the center of a quest…
Techno-bros Want Us to Trust This Idea
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I first grabbed Read Write Own from my local library because the subtitle sounded interesting. I’m ready for a new era on the internet, the current one of companies controlling everything and extracting the maximum they can from people sucks and I’m tired of it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of who Chris Dixon was so…
Feb 2024 – Books Read
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As we do every month, let’s take a look at the books I read in February 2024. Overall I “read” 9 books, 3 fiction and 6 non-fiction. I also added 3 fiction books on Audible this month for a total of 12 books. Unfortunately my current system of recording books read doesn’t have a way…
Feel Good Productivity – Should You Read It?
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Ali Abdaal is a popular YouTube content creator that focuses on productivity and living a good life and his first book is all about helping you be productive without simply grinding harder. Instead Abdaal wants to help readers get stuff done while still taking care of ourselves. He bases much of his thoughts on the…
The Stark Reality of the Climate Crisis
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The Climate book by Greta Thunberg, is not a book entirely written by the named author, it’s a collection of essays requested by Thunberg. She shows up with her own writing many times in the books, my copy had her writing on darker pages which actually made them harder to read. The purpose of the…
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
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Radicalized by Cory Doctorow is a set of 4 short stories that examine where our world is, and where it could be going if we don’t take steps to intervene in the path we are currently walking. We start with a look at immigration in the US and watch Salima finally get a real apartment…
Manufacturing Happy Citizens – Research With Me
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Today we’re going to look at another book, this time about the positive psychology movement and it’s relationship to consumerism and capitalism. Purchase Manufacturing Happy Citizens
