2025 Reading Fiesta
2025 was the year of Monk Mode, quiet environments and deep thinking.
Information Theory
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- favorite • The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- disliked • Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
- disliked • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Social Influence
- favorite • The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
- Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump
- Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
- Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror
Infrastructure & Capitalism
- favorite • Worn: A People’s History of Clothing
- The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door — Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
- Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Environment
- American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
- Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
- Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World - and How We Can Take It Back
Misc. Psychology
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember
- The Design of Everyday Things
- More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
- The Sociopath Next Door
- The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold