Modern Life


Normal People
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A Man Called Ove
Intermezzo
Yellowface
Truly Madly Guilty
Anxious People
A Little Life
Lessons in Chemistry
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
American Fantasy
Clash!: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Rebecca Solnit
The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between…Too, the rhetoric of efficiency around these technologies suggests that what cannot be quantified cannot be valued-that that vast array of pleasures which fall into the category of doing nothing in particular, of woolgathering, cloud-gazing, wandering, window-shopping, are nothing bu ...more
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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