Another person who reads many books!
Mostly depressing non-fiction in audiobook form, these days.
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This starts as an interesting and thoughtful take of missing through hikers on the PCT. However, the author, despite expressing significant skepticism about a pseudoscientific douser, seems to uncritically endorse a psychic for the second half of the book. It makes me question her judgment and made the second half of the book much less enjoyable.
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made …
Written like a thriller, Cox covers the rise and fall of Anom, an encrypted phone service run by the FBI.
I do wish that the book had engaged more with any of the actual legal and geopolitical consequences before the last chapter. I also wish that there was more clarity about where the various pieces of information came from, and how he reported on this - I never felt sure exactly what was coming from where.
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, …
The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture at …
"An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century …
DNF at 64%.
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve …
Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply …
An academic book looking at Charles Perrow’s normal accident theory and how it doesn’t explain the safety of civilian airlines. I can’t stop thinking about it - especially in how it contrasts nuclear power with civilian airline tech, calling them both “catastrophic technologies.” (Most relevant to folks who read and liked Atomic Accidents.) His distinction between “chronic” and “acute” catastrophic technologies is super interesting and has been helpful for me in thinking about failures modes.
Listening to audiobook.
