"It is a strange thing that men will be such enemies to themselves. Wisdom is the principal thing, yet all neglect her. Wherefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her and she shalt promote thee, she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thy head an ornament of grace, a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee."
-Thomas Traherne, "Centuries of Meditations"
pickThis book is important. It‘s also A LOT. It goes way back in time to how we gathered and why ( we love a unifying narrative) and all the ways those narratives have caused us harm or to do harm. We are the smartest and dumbest of creatures. It all leads up to the creation of AI and the good and bad it can and will bring. We need to create self correcting strategies. We need to fund education. We need to start yesterday.
#HyggeHour
I have been meaning to read this book for years!
In the midst of a fun but exhausting weekend, I have a lull between entertaining responsibilities. If I could nap, I would, but instead I'm drinking my coffee and trying to get my brain to focus on the Spanish translation of the tagged. I'm at an interesting point in my understanding of Spanish where reading is easier than I expect, but every now and then I get stuck with no idea how the words go together. This book might take me forever to read.
pickThis book presents all the ways humans are allowing their lived experiences to become secondary to their screens. There‘s data about many aspects of life: our friends are often online instead of in our own neighborhood, our kids are watching videos instead of riding their bikes, and there‘s anecdotes about what experiencing life through technology causes us to miss. (I‘m guilty of this somewhat—I hide behind screens in public, it‘s a shield!)
pickFinished the LotR trilogy, starting the Silmarillion & v excited for the critical theory I‘ve chosen to pair with it. Also mad about not having all the books I want to read on audiobook ho hum
This book was lovely— a lot of excellent moral readings BUT I wanted more nuance. Still, delightful. Looking for a close reading involving Tolkien‘s other works & specifically an analysis of “the scouring of the shire”
#freeluigi #feanorno
pickThis is amazingly philosophical. It addresses the neurology behind in-groups and out-groups. It clearly lays out the ways perception is entirely inside of our brains, and even how by the time we are aware of any given moment, that moment has already passed. Eagleman takes a profoundly complex topic and makes it accessible to the masses to the point that it becomes entirely enjoyable.
#DavidEagleman #TheBrain #ReadByTheAuthor #science #philosophy
so-soI liked it but I also didn‘t like it very much. Some of it seemed so obvious, like the mc being SO unlikable at the beginning…. So that we‘d see growth and like him by the end. And there were some good nuggets to think about…. But I‘m really all over the place with it.
bailed
