Sometimes there are books that keeps getting referenced again and again in book I read. Silent spring is one of them. —————————————— Being the book that kicked off the American environmental movement, I thought it would be interesting to see what it was all about. —————————————— Rachel Carson describes the damage being done to plants […]
Quick Review: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Christopher McCandless was found dead in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. He graduated 2 years earlier, having what we would call a “promising” career ahead of him. But Alex had other plans. He donated his 25.000$ worth of savings to charity, left his family and society as a whole. Disgusted by […]
Thoughts on: “Hardcore Zen” by Brad Warner
Brad Warner is punk rocker turned Zen master. He is “controversial” because he is not part of either of the two dominating fractions of Zen in the west; the overly intellectualized one or the woo-woo New age version. —————————————— He wants to make Zen available and practical for to regular people with normal lives and […]
Thoughts on: ”The Shallows” by Nicholas Carr
Maybe you were suppose to do something important right now, but got distracted by a notification. Or you talked yourself into that it might be a good idea to check your social media. It has been 10 minutes, something might have happened? Nicholas Carr modern classic The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our […]
Quick Review: Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments With Truth
We get to follow a great man in the making in this autobiography by Gandhi. Like a mad scientist, and from an early age, he experimented with every area of his life to find essence of the soul. Being very limited in my knowledge about Gandhi, I expected a focus on religion in this book, […]
Reproduce or Die! Book Review of The Selfish Gene
A quick review of Richard Dawkins groundbreaking book The Selfish Gene. Is this classic work still worth a read in this day and age? Find out here!
Thoughts on: “Food: A Culinary History” by The Great Courses
I’ve had had my ups and downs with the Great Courses series. I really want enjoy them, but the lecture format never really hook me like a regular audiobook does. —————————————— So I decided not to treat them like an audiobook and rather enjoy them the way I would do with a podcast. Casually listening […]
Thoughts on: “Stuffocation” by James Wallman
In the 1920 the United States was struggling with overproduction. There where two directions we could take from there, either we produce less or consume more. We choose the latter. —————————————— Instead of building things to last we started to built to break. Advertisement started manufacturing desire. Fantastic new products came to market and amazed […]
Thoughts on: ”The Origin of Political Order” by Francis Fukuyama
I feel defeated. This book is way beyond my level of understanding of Political Theory and it was too much for me to take in. —————————————— The book is trying to discover the origins of political institutions, that we take for granted today, and that is not a small task. Starting in prehistoric times and […]