Tag: reading

  • Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

    Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

    Picked this up browsing in the library last week. Picked and chose from the 12 rules and read about 6 of them I think. Read lots of this on the plane to Oregon for the Eugene marathon with Emily and Chloe. Here is the most memorable part of the book for me. Rule III, pg.…

  • Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)

    Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…

  • Age based reading list

    Super cool reading list broken up by age. Get off Twitter and could read. https://educatedandfree.substack.com/p/a-library-to-build-great-americans?r=b8lae

  • On reading

    Found this interesting. I don’t check as many books out from the library because they feel impermanent that way.

  • A list of blog posts I read 1st half of 2025

    Here’s a list I was keeping in a text file of the blogs/articles/essays I was reading through the first half of this year. Before I started keeping a lot of them here. I was quite good about logging each piece I read and have since dropped off. Title: Blogs and essays I’ve read Tags: blogs,…

  • Good news out of Mississippi!

    “And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam”– Nina Simone A massive surge in children’s literacy in my home state! Perhaps more noticeable than how exciting that is is how grim the numbers look in other states: 41% of public school 4th graders in California cannot read at a basic level. Not good. This good news doesn’t travel far and…

  • The dawn of the post literate society

    This blog had me agreeing on the surface throughout but after finishing it I was skeptical of a theory this grand. The data is all there and again, very agreeable as you read it. But, you check in with yourself after and you go, ‘who do I know that is like this?’ and the answer…