Caliwegian rated Technopoly: 4 stars
Technopoly by Neil Postman
With characteristic wit and candor, Neil Postman, our most astute and engaging cultural critic, launches a trenchant--and harrowing--warning against the …
Not her best
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Caliwegian rated Invisible Rulers: 4 stars
Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
An “essential and riveting” (Jonathan Haidt) analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how …
Caliwegian rated The Subversive Simone Weil: 3 stars
Eve Babitz: Sex and rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time (2017)
Sex and rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time by Eve Babitz
"The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about …
Caliwegian rated Reasons to Stay Alive: 3 stars
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr. Anna Lembke
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between …
Caliwegian finished reading Sex and rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time by Eve Babitz
"The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, …
Caliwegian reviewed How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
This is the second, revised and expanded edition. The first edition was published under the …
Helpful but somewhat repetitive
3 stars
Zettlekasten is an interesting system for organizing ideas. It sounds quite promising and I intend to try it out.
The presentation of the method is somewhat abstract making it difficult to know where to begin.
The text is also repetitive with the same ideas resurfacing again and again
Caliwegian rated Speaking of Universities: 4 stars
Caliwegian rated Anatomy of Grief: 2 stars
Caliwegian reviewed Keeping together in time by William Hardy McNeill
Interactional synchrony and its role in history
4 stars
Caliwegian finished reading The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2022) 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the …
Favourite passage: "Here is a story. The last of all men who stands alone in the universe while it darkens about him. Who sorrows all things with a single sorrow. Out of the pitiable and exhausted remnants of what was once his soul he'll find nothing from which to craft the least thing godlike to guide him in these last of days."
Caliwegian rated The information.: 3 stars
Caliwegian reviewed How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and …
Unique and Intriguing
4 stars
An artist's perspective on the commodification of attention and potential paths of resistance by seeking a deeper connection to the local environment.