New and Old

Henry and Bosley Fly

Jet Set, Upright and Locked

Burning Bright

Season of Words

1. Putin’s Russia
   Anna Politkovskaya

2. The Constant Gardener
   John le Carre

3. The Road Less Traveled
   M. Scott Peck
   Due: 18 Aug

4. Roadside Picnic
   Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
   Due: 18 Aug

5. The Trading Game
   Gary Stevenson

6. Language vs Reality
   Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
   N. J. Enfield

7. Political Tribes
   Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
   Amy Chua

8. This is Memorial Device
   David Keenan

9. A Fabulous Creation
   How the LP Saved Our Lives
   David Hepworth

10. Wages of Rebellion
    Chris Hedges

11. From Russia with Blood
    Heidi Blake

12. The West
    A New History of an Old Idea
    Naoíse Mac Sweeeney

13. Africa is not a Country
    Dipo Faloyin

14. The Road to Unfreedom
    Timothy Snyder

15. It’s a Continent
    Astrid Madimba & Chinny Ukata

16. Hostages to Fortune
    Peter C. Newman

17. This is Not America
    Tomiwa Owolade

18. Killer in the Kremlin
    John Sweeney

19. The Return of Breaking Law
    Stephen Gold

20. The Creative Act
    Rick Rubin

21. Burning Questions
    Margaret Atwood

22. Thinking in Systems
    Donella H. Meadows

23. Hands of Time
    Rebecca Struthers

24. Made to Stick
    Chip & Dan Heath

25. Start Small Stay Small
    Rob Walling

26. The Mom Test
    Rob Fitzpatrick

27. Radical Candor
    Kim Scott

28. Star Maker
    Olaf Stapledon

Bad Daze

Six Days

Crack of Doom

Overdose

Hangman’s Song

Death is Not the End

Future

Give Me Your Answer Do

Everyone Is Looking for

Seeing the Seers Blind

Some notes that make sense if you watch this…

🤖 We are already robots, we will correct all errors in biology and evolution. Running backwards from terminal points. We will do this will all of the things we hate.

🫟 We will create new systems. The Malthusian Fallacy is that our current systems are as static as our language. Everyone will be a CEO, intellectual property can be the great lever of fortune. We will negotiate better than now.

The creative field is about the creators, not the product.

🧸 Consciousness is probably more durable than “jobs” or “money”. How “consciousness” be discarded but not “jobs”? Everyone hates their “job”, and “money” is such a crude token. We can create supple, discrete and powerful ways of marking value, that fits into our conception of a good life. We are stuck with this current tool because of the power it bestows, but that power is flexible. We also constantly endure examples of that power compelling terrible behaviour.

🙄 Watching people who obviously love their job is a bit annoying. Just like the future, after the nuclear war of course.