When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it didn’t immediately find much of a readership. “Another book dropped down the…
The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
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Martin Eden by Jack London
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Against the brainrot
Reading the Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt (highly recommended), I was particularly impressed by the rules of life of Zeng Guofan, the conqueror of Taipings.
Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’
In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
'Guns, Germs, and Steel' Reconsidered
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies has had the kind of impact that most scholarly authors can only dream about for their works. First published by W.W. Norton in 1997, the book won a Pulitzer Prize the next year for its author, Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
On Christmas day, we had a quiet time this year. One of the things I did was to read Moore, Samuel A., Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (University of Michigan Press, 2025). This is a most enjoyable book that outlines a project and worldview that I know Sam has been cultivating and refining for many years. I should stress that I am not writing a “review” here. I would be conflicted anyway as I am thanked in the acknowledgements. But it did, like all good books, make me think and I wanted to jot down some thoughts. These thoughts are not necessarily novel – sometimes Sam even explores some of them in the book – but I thought it would be enjoyable to express them nonetheless.
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The Ministry for the Future
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem...
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upo…
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Kingkiller Chronicle is a planned fantasy trilogy by the American writer Patrick Rothfuss. The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 2007 and 2011. The books released in the series have sold over 10 million copies.
The Machine in the Garden
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1, Mar., 1956
Digital Gardens
"A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. "
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Everything is connected. The master collection of all links collected across all collections, and a pretty decent snapshot of my brain
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Revealed: Britain's contracts with Palantir hit £1bn
'We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
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