Wednesday, August 5, 2015

what i ve started reading in the last ~6 months and may or may not have finished probably not gotten past the first few pages let alone finished


"Unfinished work attracts company and is bad for morale" 

  • Dostoevsky brothers k (finished, discussed w other people, started reading 3-4 essays on it which I did not finish :'( ) 
  • Kierkegaard fear and trembling / repetition (read one page, made a poster and started a book club that had a botched marketing campaign and didn't start, lol) 
  • Mind over Mood (re-read first chapter for the Nth time, lol)
  • Reinventing your life (read chapters 1-3, started skimming ch5)
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (I've read couple times before but this time I just put my thumb along the length of the pages and flipped through them; no actually I read several chapters of this on a PDF and highlighted important things and wrote them out)
  • Cszizentmihalyi, The flow of everyday life, or finding flow or whatever: I actually read most of this - do things that make you focus, it's more rewarding in the long term, goddamn what a hypothesis??? TV and other lounge activities make you feel unhappy and unrewarded over time??????
  • Mark Rippetoe, Practical Programming for Strength Training (only read what my little meathead could absorb, ie..e skipped about half of it)
  • Alexander Galloway, Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (got into the first chapter, got lazy to invest in his careful framing of terms and argument before it could get rewarding, lol, read mostly on greyhound) 
  • Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (started last week, currently reading for book club, this one will actually get finished, lol) 
  • The Art of Chess (more or less just opened the introduction)
  • Nietzsche, genealogy of morality (reading introduction now, lol, will it gather dust??????)
  • Online Self Help Book (actually using this RN, holy moly)
  • shouts out to everyone i forgot to mention, I know you're lurking out there in .pdfs on my other PC or hidden somewhere on my bookshelf, and a big shoutouts to the unread internet articles taking up 1-30 tabs a day, you know who you are 

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