#+TITLE: Books Books I've read and would like to read. hr giger zdzislaw beksinski read trigun - not just watch dai dark: from q hayashida hunter s thompson: fear and loathing demon lord dante! devilman! original. junji ito: no longer human. (dazai adaptation?) junji ito: smashed. a little life red mars kim stanley robinson streaming systems: data processing book steal this book: abbie hoffman about face: by alan cooper computers and the world of the future: martin greenberger alas, babylon: pat frank Code as Creative Medium Shantaram: Gregory David Roberts What people are for: wendell berry Economy and pleasure: from something Mirai k-on!! watched some of this. great girls' last tour * shows BBC: In Our Time. on famous math works wayne, emerson student film ** merveilles rozencrantz guildenstern solaris wristcutter: a love story the rules of attaction faust my dinner with andre sedmikrasky valerie a tyden divu na srebrnym globie the taste of tea cat soup black moon (see xxiivv wiki for more) ** inio asana what a wonderful world! seinen by inio asano nijigahara holograph: seinen manga by inio asana dead dead demon's dededede destruction: inio asano nana * ETC work by mitsuo aida: 'poet of zen' serial experiments lain ai to makoto 20th century boys made in abyss GTO brooks headley's fancy desserts ghost world: daniel clowes range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world believers: naoki yamamoto homunculus: hideo yamamoto utsurun desu: sensha yoshida ushijima the loan shark uzumaki: junji ito john williams: stoner gyo: junji ito i am a hero: kengo hanazawa why greatness cannot be planned: the myth of the objective beyond good and evil: friedrich nietzsche 3 body problem sapiens: yuval noah harari Skarholmen karl jung? detransition, baby: torrey peters godel escher bach [[https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-my-learning-system?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDY5MzAyMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzIyMTgxMjUsIl8iOiI3Mk5YMiIsImlhdCI6MTYxMjgzNzQ3OCwiZXhwIjoxNjEyODQxMDc4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTM3MDEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.CqcAy7nfm9lZ-nQIJa9PFZXY-1hXAaAE4Fr1avMSYYk][Soft Science]] https://b-ok.global/book/2714421/445224 [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis_(novel)][valis]]: phillip k dick [[https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/directory.html][recommendations]] [[https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0975257382/welcometoholl-20][Drive On (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series): Gabriel, Richard P.: 9780975257388: Amazon.com: Books]] [[https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set-9780321751041][Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set, The | InformIT]] [[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/82329/the-folk-art-of-japanese-country-cooking-by-gaku-homma/][the folk art of japanese cooking]] the machineries of joy: Ray Bradbury [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantmen][Elephantmen]] [[https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-body-keeps-the-score-bessel-van-der-kolk-md/1117229987][the body keeps the score: child trauma and adult health]] black hat python: python for pen testers https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Habit-Being-Yourself-Create/dp/1401938094 https://www.amazon.com/10-Happier-Self-Help-Actually-Works/dp/0062265423 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy_type_theory https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Aided-Design-Parametric-strategies-Grasshopper/dp/8895315308 https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Map-Breaking-Invisible-Boundaries/dp/1610392507 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Finite-Theoretical-Computer-Science/dp/3540212027 https://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-Incerto/dp/0812975219 https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Year-Disguised/dp/0143038702 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/semantics-engineering-plt-redex https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20702054-ricky-rouse-has-a-gun https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13058637-subliminal https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hacking-life https://www.amazon.com/dp/1788735013?tag=duckduckgo-fpas-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/One-Mans-Terrorist-Political-History/dp/1786636883 https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-How-Good-Want/dp/0714843377 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41057294-normal-people https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s_Ladder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29845449-the-weird-and-the-eerie https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Planets-Contemporary-Chinese-Translation/dp/0765384191 https://www.amazon.com/Compiling-Continuations-Andrew-W-Appel/dp/052103311X https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Pooh https://www.amazon.com/Three-Dimensional-Imaging-Techniques-Takanori-Okoshi/dp/0982225148 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556154844?tag=duckduckgo-fpas-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Information-Statistics/dp/0387310738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151144 https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/g37h4c/what_are_your_favorite_computer_science_books/ https://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/tapl/ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eremzi/OSTEP/ classic os book https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Software-Structure/dp/0134494164 https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/%7Epvr/book.html https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/applying-uml-and/0131489062/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2333956.The_Annotated_Turing?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=6DmPQiMHk9&rank=1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166195.Modern_Operating_Systems?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=95BaFJ8hmZ&rank=1 https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X https://eloquentjavascript.net/ writing javascript good [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1099819776?tag=duckduckgo-fpas-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1][book on how doom was developed, looks cool too!]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Logo [[https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862][working in public: maintaining open source software]] realm of racket ???? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel) * books https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_Radiance https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Novel-Blake-Crouch/dp/1101904240 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range:_Why_Generalists_Triumph_in_a_Specialized_World https://www.powells.com/book/little-typer-9780262536431 https://blog.rogs.me/2020/05/de-google-my-blog-how-to-blog-in-2020-without-google/ de google the blog code as a creative medium :: MIT book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming -- practice literate programming in daily life. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(film) movie not book i guess [[https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0477139/][Wristcutters]]: a love story. movie https://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/ cool looks https://github.com/alimir1/ali/blob/master/index.md books this dude has enjoyed * movies i am heath ledger https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1737747/ okja fargo yokai watch the 15:17 to paris the farewell the last black man in san francisco ten years full metal jacket cowboy bebop samurai champloo to read: - noise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41057294-normal-people https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122231/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143122231&linkCode=as2&tag=ucmbread-20&linkId=XIHEULXQQPU7EGO7 http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/ being mortal:: atul gawande, surgery, medicine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769712.Palestine palestine: joe sacco https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16982.Marvels kurt busiek: marvels https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118944.American_Born_Chinese gene luen yang: american born chinese https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34072.Jimmy_Corrigan Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on earth. chris ware ghost world https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38333.Black_Hole charles burns: black hole https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6088007-neuromancer william gibson: neuromancer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297627.The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_Vol_1 the league of extraordinary gentlemen. marvel anti-heroes, but with historical figures we already believe to be the good guys. similar to alan moore's watchman evaulation of the anti hero, but sets you up with preconceived notions of his subjects https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96358.Batman batman the killing joke https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22416.Transmetropolitan_Vol_1 transmetropolitan, a journalist dragged back into the thick of it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gon_(manga) manga for kids about a dinosaur navigating the world : ' ) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushishi https://myanimelist.net/manga/336/GTO gto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berserk_vol01.jpg berserk i guess https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59960.Batman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156534.Y Y, the last man https://nogunslife.fandom.com/wiki/No_Guns_Life_(manga) No Guns Life https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorohedoro Biomega Vagabond deiter rams: the complete works. claus kemp deiter rams' 10 principles of good design, apparently on vimeo the work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility and other writings on media: walter benjamin futura: the artist's monograph - [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)][Be Here Now]] :: Foundational LSD book - [[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118288.On_Beauty_and_Being_Just][On Beauty and Being Just]] :: a work on our world's loss of focus on true beauty - [[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now][The Power of Now]] :: Some call Tolle a hack, others an appropriator of spiritual truths, but this seems to have genuinely valuable words and advice. - [[https://www.tinyhabits.com/][tiny habits]] :: developing lots of small habits, emotions, etc and sticking to character. [[https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/bj-fogg/][podcast about creating lasting change]] - [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine][The Shock Doctrine]] :: On leveraging sudden events for political gain Tekkonkinkreet 20th century boys Tokyo Tribes Gantz Battle Angel Alita Koduko no Gourmet blind man's bluff: untold story of american submarine espionage neuromancer, gibson -- some of the goodreqads reviews are absolutely incredibly written, actually superlife: on superfoods and fitness. Darin Olien check out things by isaac asimov! incl. 'the widowers club' contact high: a visual history of hip hop doug dubois: my last day at seventeen haruki murakami: men without women mastery: george leonard Crary: 24/7 book Keller Easterling: Extra statecraft: the power of infrastructure pace Marx: Capital Kant: Critique of pure reason Effective Altruism Doing Good Better: earning to give. Personal space: Dylan Gins (@_dylangins on ig) book: xchg rax,rax - assembly riddles Range: david epstein. book about generalism fuzzingbook.org waste tide: chen qiufan thinking fast and slow: daniel kahneman Exhalation: ted chiang Flights: olga tokarczuk outline: rachel cusk ice: anna kaven naussicaa: manga @migrant_journal issues [[https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/][deep work]]: rules for focused success [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_(manga)][homunculus]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flowers_of_Evil_(manga)][the flowers of evil]] [[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136744.Domu][domu: a child's dream]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzumaki][uzumaki]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi_the_Killer_(manga)][ichi the killer]] [[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72469/only-the-paranoid-survive-by-andrew-grove/][andy grove::only the paranoid survive]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Media_Reader][the new media reader]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Memos_for_the_Next_Millennium][six memos for the next millenium]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Either/Or][either/or]] [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/6795/8][oyasumi punpun]] :: a normal 11 year old boy in his world, but he's depicted as a stick figure bird : ' ) ruth ware cakes and ale, of human bondage: Maugham Piranesi, Hamnet! 10:04: Ben Lerner Letters to Vera! -- incredible quotes and experience Pale Fire anathema a canticle for leibowitz [[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/790171.Kon_Tiki][kon-tiki, a record across the pacitic ocean by raft]] [[https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781440582639][your illustrated guide to becoming one with the universe]] [[https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/reading.html][go nuts w merveilles recs]] neon genesis evangelion: look into SEELE things https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_Radiance https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Novel-Blake-Crouch/dp/1101904240 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range:_Why_Generalists_Triumph_in_a_Specialized_World love, kurt: the vonnegut love letters abandon me: melissa febos The Group novel; also one by one? read more! Piranesi book https://ava.substack.com/p/hi-what-are-you-readingwatching-during/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDY5MzAyMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzA2OTQ2MjQsIl8iOiJhNFBiYiIsImlhdCI6MTYwOTgzMjQ1OCwiZXhwIjoxNjA5ODM2MDU4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjM0MTciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.A_bVfR38FrFe_J3mU00-TvpE3Ghr8OpSE05j8dHgl5k * Reviews ** Blame! an incredible navigation of dystopia in a world as a city ** Scott Pilgrim Such a joyful adventure! Follows a kid out of college and two old to grow up as he battles his new girlfriend's evil exes and navigates regrets, living without limits and his future. Thematic exploration changes with the art style. ** Ghost in the Shell Far too hard to follow. Gave up on it. * etc podcast https://www.thisamericanlife.org/523/death-and-taxes [[https://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation/dp/069116472X][Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game]] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1737747/ https://www.powells.com/book/little-typer-9780262536431 code as a creative medium :: MIT book [[https://github.com/frnsys/speculating_futures ][speculating futures]]: hopeful dystopia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom http://www.brattlebookshop.com/ the bookstore! [[https://thebreadbook.org/][the bread book :: a free society for everyone!]] [[https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/][game engine black book]] [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281568][writing a programming book]] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/sicm_edition_2/book.html https://github.com/dbp/website/blob/master/reading.markdown machiavelli what we got wrong https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2333956.The_Annotated_Turing?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=6DmPQiMHk9&rank=1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/22328243-alex?shelf=currently-reading [[https://chad.is/reading/][Reading List & Book Reviews • Chad Mazzola]] [[https://www.notion.so/Reading-List-3b67216063554f42bfb85fe9b20b287d][Reading List]] https://an-vu.com/What-I-m-Reading [[https://ferrucc.io/reading/][Monthly Update]] [[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/matter-facts][The Matter of Facts | The MIT Press]] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile * Other Resources https://libbyapp.com/welcome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frazetta [[https://medium.com/@jethroksy/the-mythical-man-month-is-the-tour-de-force-of-fred-brooks-a-software-engineer-and-architect-who-b56f0a72019d][The Mythical Man Month]] [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/is-tom-stoppards-arcadia-the-greatest-play-of-our-age-1688852.html][Is Tom Stoppard's Arcadia the greatest play of our age? | The Independent]] [[https://chad.is/reading/][Reading List & Book Reviews • Chad Mazzola]] [[https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html][Havel, Power of the Powerless, 1978]] https://eli.li/ book recommendations! http://www.ayeletwaldman.com/ [[file:researx.org][Research]] [[https://royniang.com/programming.html][programming book recommendations]] https://mnmll.ist/ listing all things minimal https://www.notion.so/Reading-List-3b67216063554f42bfb85fe9b20b287d https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_of_the_Future https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_To_Fail_at_Almost_Everything_and_Still_Win_Big https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StartUp_(podcast) the war of art [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk_(manga)][Berserk (manga) - Wikipedia]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita][Battle Angel Alita - Wikipedia]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomega_%28manga%29][Biomega (manga) - Wikipedia]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Sidonia][Knights of Sidonia - Wikipedia]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gon_(manga)][Gon (manga) - Wikipedia]] [[https://myanimelist.net/manga/664/Akira][Akira | Manga - MyAnimeList.net]] [[https://myanimelist.net/manga/651/Kaze_no_Tani_no_Nausica%C3%A4][Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) | Manga - MyAnimeList.net]] [[https://myanimelist.net/manga/1400/Abara][Abara | Manga - MyAnimeList.net]] Jane Austen: Mansfield Park Aldous Huxley: Island. Parallels 'brave new world'! ** TODO [[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42853221-our-women-on-the-ground][Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir]] Captured On: [2020-10-28 Wed 22:24] ** TODO [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer][Neuromancer - Wikipedia]] Captured On: [2020-10-28 Wed 22:35] ** TODO [[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geometry][Functional Differential Geometry | The MIT Press]] highly recommended modern programming book Captured On: [2020-10-18 Sun 20:39] ** TODO [[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geometry][Functional Differential Geometry | The MIT Press]] Captured On: [2020-10-18 Sun 20:39] ** TODO [[https://sites.google.com/site/numberlandadventures/home][Alice's Adventures in Numberland]] Captured On: [2020-10-18 Sun 20:41] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79908.What_Am_I_Doing_Here_ https://newwaves.website/ [[file:web_design.org][Web Design]] incredible web design and advertisement for a book! The haunting of hill house: shirley jackson https://github.com/alimir1/ali/blob/master/index.md list of book recs https://kokorobot.ca/site/collection.html rekka bell book recommendations! https://tynandebold.com/various book recs https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/04/six-four-hideo-yokoyama-review-crime-thriller-phenomenon-japan https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits [[file:getting-things-done.org][Getting Things Done]] https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-flywheel.html [[file:getting-things-done.org][Getting Things Done]] - permanent record, edward snowden - pleaant reads - nausea, jean-paul sartre - do androids dream of electric sheep? philip k. dick - generation ecstasy, simon reynolds - stay sexy & don't get murdered: the definitive how-to guide, karen kilgariff & georgia hardstark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden:_It%27s_an_Endless_World! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love#%22The_Tale_of_the_Man_Who_Was_Too_Lazy_to_Fail%22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqaddimah early view of universal history : ' ) debord baudrillard [[https://twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1282775477128658946][mating by norman rush]] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122231/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143122231&linkCode=as2&tag=ucmbread-20&linkId=XIHEULXQQPU7EGO7 [[file:getting-things-done.org][Getting Things Done]] https://albigen.com/uarelove/most_rapid/contents.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23100/23100-h/23100-h.htm?utm_source=hillelwayne&utm_medium=email no idea what this is tbh https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm?utm_source=hillelwayne&utm_medium=email https://ava.substack.com/p/hi-what-are-you-readingwatching-this/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxOTQ4ODUwNiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzE1MDg1ODksIl8iOiI3Mk5YMiIsImlhdCI6MTYxMjIyNjc4MiwiZXhwIjoxNjEyMjMwMzgyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjM0MTciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.F2ZyDy7XQm9qXQd0cZYgeRCsKz3hlyu0Y5kJmJv5YWU book recs: i only have time for so many though... - Umwelt manga: https://mangadex.org/chapter/20607/1 (Nana manga?) - The Master and the Margarita [[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kYJ6RvS9zJ3WrGP7o/book-review-weirdest-people]] [[https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970977][a people's history of computing in the united states]] antifragile and other books by the same author to fisit: horsetail falls during the firefall go camping !! big schloss. beautiful movie: Silence (2016) disco elysium apparently has super good game mecahnics design recipe: black sesame chocolate gateu (@_nthea recipe?) http://nickcammarata.com/bookshelf this bookshelf is an incredible source of inspiration [[https://tommycollison.com/greatbooks][excellent classic book recommendations and noble goal.]] [[https://ava.substack.com/p/on-hungry-ghosts?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxOTQ4ODUwNiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzMxMjg4MzcsIl8iOiI3Mk5YMiIsImlhdCI6MTYxNzg2MzQzMSwiZXhwIjoxNjE3ODY3MDMxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjM0MTciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.UGfiGi9DLk82xSApGGccmZEgTrytSUQwWBfMNowlPGU][i am a hungry ghost]]: an article and corresponding, in-depth book on addiction, craving and resolving it [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs][Bullshit Jobs]]: a reflection of much of the software engineering process. shows why automation has led to pointless employment rather than a smaller work week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_Lucida_(book): recommended by sibling * convenience store woman i love the flow and repetition of this book. the way the old woman with the cane is mentioned three times before. taking the piss is an interesting phrase, and i didnt particularly like the overdescriptive introduction, but i loved the arc back to normalcy that the book provided - the convenience store was right, and sometimes we must trend back to comfort, even if comfort is a different convenience store in a different place. i'm glad those cute literary tricks were ported through the translation but given some passages that seem kind of strange i sense there are many more in the original japanese - there seems to be some interesting playing with names, and addressing people in different ways in different contexts, that doesn't come through because we don't have the robust honorific system of Japan. i wasn't a fan of the Shiraha character and feel that a more mixed influence rather than one decidedly negative may have been helpful to propel the story forwarda, because denying things that were positive influences as well for the convenience store, perhaps, may have made the return to normalcy more impactful, as we see that her experience with Shiraha is decidedly negative. phrases like taking the piss are interesting, as well as the choice to translate greetings in some places but use only a phonetic translation in others. i love the description of *feeling* the convenience store, feeling at home, trying to accommodate others to fit in, using food as a resource rather than a temptation, and developing as a result from influences around us. some key learnings (lmfao): i disagree with 'not betraying your nature' philosophy and with 'conforming to society', the third path being doing whatever you want to do and being really really good at it and fucking around until you win basically, because pursuing that passion and the feeling of this is what you are meant to do is so much more important than anything else, and miss fukuhara realizes this. there's also a sense to not tightly curate your influences but to be constantly aware of them - things like adopting mannerisms from those around you - because these are inevitable, so absorbing good works with good influences is so so important. * uzumaki, gyo just finished uzumaki and gyo. brilliant, haunting stories, but very simple as well.