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Bakunin is on page 150 of 309 of Dä kvetter : Gustaf Fröding som student
A litte too many details on the environment and not enough on what makes the Swedish poet Fröding tick. Other than that... I like it!
Mar 11, 2026 05:34AM Add a comment
Dä kvetter : Gustaf Fröding som student

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 50 of 266 of Fantasi
Interesting facts about what makes us human. Neurologist David Bäckström explores how humans percieve the world and how our ability to imagine shapes our identity. He claims that colors are biologically hardcoded and that if we for example just have 4 words describing color in a certain language - those colors must be black, white, red and either green or yellow. Have to double check that.
Mar 08, 2026 11:27PM Add a comment
Fantasi

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 250 of 426 of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Interesting perspective. Taleb believes among other things that the invention of the nation state led to more wars by centralizing power/bureaucracy (this goes against Kissinger views among others). His view is that one should try to decentralize in order to avoid Black swan events.
Feb 26, 2026 04:59AM Add a comment
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 50 of 426 of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile is an interesting concept (order which becomes stronger by integrating disorder). I just have a had time with Taleb is he is sometimes too much of a contrarian, and tryint too hard to sell this concept. I'm not looking to be sold something, just looking to find out whats true.
Feb 20, 2026 01:56AM Add a comment
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 800 of 912 of Middlemarch
Feb 20, 2026 01:51AM Add a comment
Middlemarch

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 40 of 416 of Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Finally a biography of Gauguin!
Jan 22, 2026 11:14PM Add a comment
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 100 of 272 of Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Very readable! I find L'amour to be immensely inspiring as an author and autodidact who went his own way. L'amour also manages to paint a portrait of the lifestyle of itinerant hobos during the early 1900's.
Jan 21, 2026 07:42AM Add a comment
Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 100 of 711 of The Sword of Honour Trilogy
Not as funny as I would've imagined but interesting nonetheless.
Jan 13, 2026 08:08AM Add a comment
The Sword of Honour Trilogy

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 100 of 912 of Middlemarch
Jan 10, 2026 10:51AM Add a comment
Middlemarch

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 500 of 912 of Middlemarch
Jan 10, 2026 10:50AM Add a comment
Middlemarch

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 250 of 586 of Oblomov
Jan 10, 2026 10:45AM 3 comments
Oblomov

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 50 of 586 of Oblomov
Very funny.
Dec 28, 2025 12:35AM Add a comment
Oblomov

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 30 of 1500 of The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
McGilchrist is a polymath who is famous for expanding an interpretation of how the two different consciousnesses (our left- and right hemispheres) have shaped civilization. This book feels like one has taken a whole bunch of shrooms and tried to assimilate all the knowledge in ones library into one book.
Oct 31, 2025 03:24AM Add a comment
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 50 of 296 of Theft
Oct 30, 2025 07:16AM Add a comment
Theft

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 200 of 244 of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
I am a little disappointed by the author. I've read his other works and found them to be a valuable guide to how to build important routines. They helped me clarify my thinking on certain issues. Here Cal is attempting to discuss burnout and how the idea of productivity as busyness is the reason for burnout. Instead one should do fewer things, work at a natural pace and obssess over quality. This seems a bit trite.
Oct 16, 2025 10:54PM Add a comment
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 150 of 292 of Fallet
Oct 12, 2025 09:59AM Add a comment
Fallet

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 150 of 606 of Lusten och dämonerna. Boken om Bergman.
I am struck by Bergmans incredible work ethic and how he from very early on (when he was 20) already started directing theatre plays which got reviewed in a national newspaper. Bergman later became a theatre manager which makes highly practical demands on a person. According to Timm, Bergman wanted to play all sorts of plays in order to please as broad an audience as possible. He even directed children's plays!
Oct 06, 2025 03:52AM Add a comment
Lusten och dämonerna. Boken om Bergman.

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 150 of 304 of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
We only read stories of successful startups but rarely do we hear the psychological stress which is incurred in the process of creating something entirely novel. I now realize the ex-CEO and VC Ben Horowitz intention here is similar to what the ancient greeks attempted to do with theatre i.e. to portray the psychological difficulties in choosing between a rock and a hard place.
Oct 03, 2025 06:32AM Add a comment
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 200 of 258 of Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Great (as always with Paul Graham) but I wish there were more essays on society rather than just hacking. Paul is a contrarian who has started companies and been pivotal in the startup scene. His thinking is often concise and outlines novel (and big) ideas which are well worth reflecting on.
Sep 20, 2025 11:54PM Add a comment
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 100 of 480 of The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
So far interesting. It does provide a summary of common problems that founders go through (based on a sample size of 10,000 startups). I read this book to find inspiration for a creative project I am working on.
Sep 15, 2025 12:39AM Add a comment
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 50 of 403 of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
So far great!
Sep 12, 2025 06:42AM Add a comment
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 100 of 166 of I otakt med tidsandan: En personlig biografi om Tage Lindbom
Interesting portrait from a sons perspective. Tage Lindbom was an eccentric thinker in Sweden. He became an influent member of the socialdemocratic establishment in the 40s but became disillusioned by certain strands of socialist thought. He eventually converted to islam and became a religious conservative.
Sep 08, 2025 05:02AM Add a comment
I otakt med tidsandan: En personlig biografi om Tage Lindbom

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 60 of 672 of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
Interesting but too long. Too many details. The author should cut to the chase.
Aug 14, 2025 10:16AM Add a comment
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 150 of 370 of Prokofiev by Prokofiev: A composer's memoir
Prokofievs memoir gives the reader an insight into how he was taught and also his early musical intuition. I also found it interesting that he was homeschooled for so long.
Aug 14, 2025 12:09AM Add a comment
Prokofiev by Prokofiev: A composer's memoir

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 150 of 227 of Det där som nästan kväver dig
Her characters complain an awful lot. Some of these short stories are more memorable but I wish that the characters would adopt a more stoic demeanour.
Aug 13, 2025 11:53PM Add a comment
Det där som nästan kväver dig

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 50 of 312 of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Interesting hypothesis. States did not spring up automatically after human adopted a more sedentary life. The author tries to upend the traditionally enlightened view of how society evolved.
Jul 24, 2025 02:49AM Add a comment
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 100 of 174 of Ficciones
I don't know what the fuss is all about. I must be missing something in my reading of Borges.
Jun 25, 2025 11:52PM Add a comment
Ficciones

Bakunin
Bakunin is on page 80 of 190 of Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick
Funny but not as interesting as I would've hoped.
Jun 25, 2025 11:51PM Add a comment
Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick

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