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: Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
Simple wisdom comes out on top, no matter who you are: The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place. Whenever making a new purchase, try to picture where the item…
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Read: The LONG HAUL: To iPad or Not to iPad
Performance should be a sacred, screen-free place, at least in terms of what the performers are putting out to the audience (there’s no stopping the myriad of phones aimed at the stage by the audience, nor…
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Read: 6 thoughts on “Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting”
When switching costs are high, services can be changed in ways that you dislike without losing your business. The higher the switching costs, the more a company can abuse you, because it knows that as bad…
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Read: Conversation vs Publishing
I think ultimately we’ll be disappointed with federation for all the reasons we’re frustrated with earlier social web systems. People trying to get attention for their ideas, which often are abusive. Now the question is what…
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Read: If Not Vegan, or Vegetarian, How About Chickentarian?
Buying a whole chicken, cutting it into pieces and wrestling with the bones, finding ways to really get the most out of every part—that’s enough! It is the antidote to mindless consumption. And while thoughtfulness is…
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Read: The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction – The Atlantic
Ironically, activist faculty and their conservative critics share the same nihilistic vision of the future of higher education: Both believe that the only valuable forms of research and teaching are those that accomplish something obviously useful.…
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Read: 2024: A Year of Divergence or Convergence?
You can use some of these questions as a guide (and ideally journal around them): • Where am I saying I want to do something or make a change but am not taking any action? •…
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Read: 2023 in Social Media: The Case for the Fediverse
Decentralizing social media can sound like a sort of kumbaya anti-capitalist manifesto: “It’s about openness and sharing, not capitalism, *man*!” In practice it’s the opposite: it’s a truly free market approach to social networking. Mastodon may…
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Read: The Sound of Failure
19th December 1995 Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all these…
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Read: Your Top Health Questions of 2023, Answered
Here are 10 of the most popular health questions of 2023. Note: I did a dive on the articles of interest to me: – arthritis: stay active and not overweight (doesn’t help my hand problem though)…