Finished reading (2021): Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
A very helpful book to start the year. Overarchingly good, even great; final chapters are a bit contradictory and dissatisfying, though the tools in the appendix are solid.
On the “attention economy” of social media et al.: “It’s essentially a giant machine for persuading you to make the wrong decisions about what to do with your attention, and therefore with your finite life…”
Yup.
Finished reading (2021): The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa 📚
“There is something about this mountain, this painting, this tree, we tend to say, and this something can make demands on us.”
Closest cribbage game in the history of cribbage games that’s ever “been happened” before. (And Meghan won)
Rendezvous Mountain (après waffles)
Jackson Hole • A statement of fact: It is 2022.
Finished reading (2021): One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle 📚
Simply and purely enjoyable all the way through.
Finished reading (2021): The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber 📚
About as interesting as I’d hoped it would be; more disappointing than I expected. As MacIntyre put it, “Doubting is a more complex activity than some skeptics have realized.”
Currently Reading: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber 📚
Gotta love headings like this!
Mary Oliver
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