I have been a heavy user of Readwise for several years now and finally got around to writing a Python script to pull in my reading notes and highlights from what I’m reading. You can see them below, updated daily.
In the very early days of blogging, I used to regularly write longish posts about books I read. Now, for better or worse, I’m reading more articles and fewer books and my posts about them tend to be much shorter.
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Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you didn’t even know you had. Every influencer who monetizes your insecurities.…
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Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
• No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. Things arise and things dissolve forever and ever. Whatever happens, we…
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Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, and their readers like their patrons. Source: My Friends Aren’t Reading…
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Read: The Tech Coup
. The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for potential harms. According to article 191 of the Treaty of the…
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Read: Why Not Bluesky
The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make money for the “Limited Partners” who provide the capital. Since VC…
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Read: Meditations for Mortals
And so instead of asking how to summon the energy or motivation or self-discipline to do something that matters to you, it’s often more helpful to ask: What if this might be a lot easier than…
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Read: In Praise of Inconvenience: The Hidden Costs of a Convenient World
That’s the convenience paradox: the more we optimize our lives, the less we actually live them. We’re becoming masters of arrangement rather than action, curators instead of creators. Life risks turning into a series of frictionless…
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Read: The Imperfectionist: How Not to Freak Out, Part Two
The antidote to all of this, in the broadest terms, is *more reality*, more immersion in the finite here and now: more writing on paper; more gathering in person and in public; more looking strangers in…
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Read: Mud Boots of Empathy in Spain
Spain’s unity at this moment is from the bottom up. Or, as Spanish professional soccer player Ferran Torres wrote on social media, “The people are the ones who save the people. … Long live Spain.” Source:…
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Read: Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
his latest work, *Program or Be Programmed*, the 15th anniversary edition, Rushkoff proposes four methods to avoid being programmed by digital technology, and to instead become the programmers of our world. What we require is to:…