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: 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)…
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Read: Chatbot Therapy Is Risky. It’s Also Not Useless.
This article pairs well with “What AI Means for Buddhism.“ Implemented ethically, AI could become a valuable tool for helping people improve their results when seeking mental health care. But Stade noted that the reasons behind…
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Read: 269 / ’Tis the Season… For Tending to the Inner Garden of the Soul
A question worth asking: ‘What does it mean that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life…
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Read: A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
I’m becoming more and more convinced that the people who are most well-positioned to leverage GenAI in its current form are those who are skilled at precise language. When you think about programming languages like Perl,…
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Read: “We Are All Socialists in Our Private Lives”
> If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do…
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Read: Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
During the 1960s, for example, the average American person bought fewer than 25 garments every year. Fast forward 60 years, they’re purchasing nearly 70 pieces of clothing annually, or more than one new item per week.…