I read as much as I ever have, but most of it is article after article viewed online. Much of my reading is for information, for truth, and for insight based on information leading to truth.
(LOL nothing matters.)
My print-book consumption for 2019 was very small. It’s not the pile I had in 2017, but each has its place, covering different aspects of the world we live in today. In chronological order of reading:
- The One Device: Remember that episode of “The Orville” where the replicator effortlessly reconstructed an iPhone? In the real world, putting one of those together requires a LOT more work. This book spans both the physical resources and the decades of research in varied areas of technology that all come together in something I still don’t quite understand the ubiquitousness of.
- The Hundred-Year Marathon: READ THIS BOOK. It came out in early 2016, and everything that’s happened since makes it even more relevant. China has a plan, and the United States has been falling into the trap for decades. (For starters: China has interpreted of over 150 years of American actions — even accidental or good-intentioned ones — as deliberate malice.)
- Tomorrow Will Be Different: Sarah McBride came out as transgender in her senior year of college. Since then she has been heavily involved in political issues related to trans people.
- Shattered: Political campaign narratives often fall into two categories. The winning campaign is a well-oiled machine that made setbacks temporary and had a message that resonated with the American people; losing campaigns were cavalcades of catastrophes that end with finger-pointing and a hundred times where things went wrong. This book is about Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, and the preceding sentence may or may not apply.