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Starting chapter 10.

Starting chapter 4.

Japanese magical realism with life lessons. Butterfly effect meets monkey’s paw - everything you gain (another day of life) requires losing something else (phones, movies, clocks, etc.). Each confrontation with death and mortality reveals more about the human condition, how we relate to one another, and deciding what gives us purpose and meaning.

Reads like a Malcolm Gladwell book with examples and scenarios to explain the siperforecasting skill and phenomenon.

I feel like I’m still waiting for something to happen lol

I have explained and shared and recommended this book to no less than seven people already since starting it. It’s dense and with meandering, intertwining character lives but quite profound in the science and tech questions and plausibilities already.

I have just gotten to the sulfur use as a massive solar geo engineering project discussed by technocrats and leaders of wealthy countries and the ethics of the butterfly effect in altering the environment.

This book was recommended to me by two people who say it’s the climate fiction one to read on geoengineering. The pacing and pov writing style is taking a bit for me to get used to although it’s drawn me in nonetheless. The Texas setting is familiar. The story takes place in the near future although I can’t quite determine when. The science is explained simply and I’ve already learned a few things.

Starting chapter six. I’m reading it to try to understand the tech monopoly mindset. Have to do a few mental gymnastics to understand some of Thiel’s points because he cherry picks metaphors in order to make his argument. Other points I can see his perspective even if it’s phrased unconventionally. Not yet fully convinced at this point in the book.

Starting the Avoidant Attachment section. I related very much to the Anxious Attachment section, so I am looking forward to better understanding another perspective in a relationship.

Starting page 33 on US Attitudes Toward Spying.

I didn’t realize how many flashback chapters this book would have. It’s taking me more time to get through than the first two books in the series because I’m not enjoying the plot as much with this story device and second chance romance.

My current pool read.

Starting Chapter 6.