My Reading Life
My Reading Life
Books
Books! Do What You Will, With Them
The title says it all.
Note to Self, Cal Newport’s Minimal Notes System
My old-style slow notetaking process. Replaced now with Elipsa Annotations, which then move along with my thoughts into Org Roam Notes. Click to see bigger Cal Newport recently did a deep dive on his podcast, on a minimalist note taking system for various areas of your life. Video’s on Youtube, if you want to watch. It’s called A Productivity System To Remember Everything You Learn. It matches, what I’ve organically been doing all these years....
Iron Widow
Iron Widow, Highlights
Babel
All my highlights and thoughts from Babel
The Kobo Elipsa 2e, Six Months Later
An update on the Elipsa 2e, six months later and how it has influenced my reading.
Poor Ceres Always Gets the Short End of the Stick
Courtesy, NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA, Public Domain, via Wikipedia I just finished Tamsyn Muir’s Nona, last month. And of course, I’m now stuck along with the rest of the world waiting for Alecto to come along.1 In the meanwhile I’m having fun with the rest of the world, dissecting the old books to pieces with various pieces of headcanon and wild theories, one of the popular ones being trying to find analogies between the houses of the books and our solar system...
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, Carlo Cipolla
Short Booklet. Very Taleb–esque writing. Very entertaining. Tells us there are lots of stupid people, with a really precise definition of stupid; those folks that would cut their nose to spite their face, or like the book would say, stupid folks are they who would cause losses to other folks, even when they stand to gain nothing or possibly, ever incur losses! It reads like an erudite rant. But unlike Taleb, ends with no advice or suggestion....
A Signed Copy of Neil Gaiman’s, “What You Need to Be Warm”
I went and fulfilled an old dream of mine. A signed copy of Neil Gaiman’s, What You Need to Be Warm. Click to see bigger A New Year’s Gift! From me, to me 😂 I got mine from The Golden Notebook, an indie bookshop in Woodstock New York, who are kind and prompt and ship world wide.1 Feedback on this post? Mail me at feedback@janusworx.com P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list!...
Read, Read, Read, Everything
With eternal gratitude to Bruinhilda the Librarian, for writing this. And with lots of apologies for stealing it wholesale and making it my new reading manifesto :) As a library worker, there’s something I want to say to you. You do not have to apologize for the books you choose to read. At all. To anyone. You owe nobody any explanations; you need no excuse or “good reason” to be reading the book....