Burning Bright

Season of Words

1. Putin’s Russia
   Anna Politkovskaya

2. The Constant Gardener
   John le Carre

3. The Trading Game
   Gary Stevenson

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

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

6. This is Memorial Device
   David Keenan

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

8. Wages of Rebellion
   Chris Hedges

9. From Russia with Blood
   Heidi Blake

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

11. Africa is not a Country
    Dipo Faloyin

12. The Road to Unfreedom
    Timothy Snyder

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

14. Hostages to Fortune
    Peter C. Newman

15. This is Not America
    Tomiwa Owolade

16. Killer in the Kremlin
    John Sweeney

17. The Return of Breaking Law
    Stephen Gold

18. The Creative Act
    Rick Rubin

19. Burning Questions
    Margaret Atwood

20. Thinking in Systems
    Donella H. Meadows

21. Hands of Time
    Rebecca Struthers

22. Made to Stick
    Chip & Dan Heath

23. Start Small Stay Small
    Rob Walling

24. The Mom Test
    Rob Fitzpatrick

25. Radical Candor
    Kim Scott

26. 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.

Age of the Clowns

We are currently living in an age in which sophistication collapses into simple, humorous messages.

A clown owns comprehensibility and presents action as unserious to distract and defuse from the real and tragic action of philosophical transplant. This is happening on multiple fronts.

Trading Game

So I am looking to buy the book a youtube guy wrote about how the economy is falling to bits and is corrosive to society. I add the book to my cart on amazon at £15 pounds, it goes to £19 and then down to £17. I wait it out a bit and it seems to fluctuate more and then stabilise at £19. removed from my cart I check indie sites. on sale at £23 for the retail of £25. Other used book places have it pegged at £20. Then checking ebay, I bid £12.00 and loose by 50p. Then the ebay algorithm offers me the book at £8.50 plus £2.50 shipping. I order it. For a book about the economy, it is very much involved by the act of its presence. I ended up giving this copy away. I was not expecting it to be a paperback, and was some sort of preview copy. So at last, wandering in a shopping centre, I spot a hard cover on sale for 50% off!

I have not started it yet.

Hammerberry

Check out this crazy berry!

Bulova Accutron

Railroad Approved

Dial time Caseback

This watch was made in 1965 and the movement is run by a battery, powering a tuning fork for accurate timekeeping. The technological precursor to quartz gubbings. The second hand sweeps and the watch hums. Tucking the crown in the back with a retractable handle is also a smooth move.

It is for sale!