I'm re-reading Alas, Bablyon. An interesting post-apocalyptic book, published around 1960 or so. I enjoyed it, that's why the re-read.

Also if you're inclined towards prepping/survivalism, there are some good and maybe useful ideas in there.

Reading Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon. Really killer dialogue, but be prepared for lengthy tangents.

Enjoyed the first book in the series, and am just about to dive into this one.

I started re-reading Eliezer Yudkowski’s rationalist Harry Potter fanfic, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It’s excellently written and starts out quite hilariously.

The most notable departure point is that Petunia Evans married a professor of biochemistry at Oxford, and so Harry Potter grew up learning science in a house full of books.

I don't know if it will be worth the try but I have just started to read it. I don't like reading book reviews prior to reading them, so this is no different this time.

You can call me lazy. 😜

I'm reading Outdated by JP

Oishinbo (Japanese: 美味しんぼ, lit. "The Gourmet") is a long-running Japanese cooking manga series written by Tetsu Kariya [ja] and drawn by Akira Hanasaki [ja]. The manga's title is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for delicious, oishii, and the word for someone who loves to eat, kuishinbo. The series depicts the adventures of culinary journalist Shirō Yamaoka and his partner (and later wife), Yūko Kurita. It was published by Shogakukan between 1983 and 2008 in Big Comic Spirits, and resumed again on February 23, 2009, only to be put on an indefinite hiatus after the May 12, 2014, edition in the weekly Big Comic Spirits following harsh criticism of Oishinbo's treatment of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

Really enjoying this at the moment. Especially the small story about Willie Ruff recording his French Horn at St Mark's Cathedral and being blown away by the reverb/echo. One recording of which can be heard on YouTube.

Tidy First by Kent Beck. It is a book about the software development process. Interestingly it contains a chapter titled A Dollar Today > A Dollar Tomorrow. Yeah, software development outside Bitcoin has still quite fiat mindset. In a bitcoin standard a bitcoin tomorrow will have more purchasing power than a bitcoin today and we will hopefully get better software...

Know the past to help predict the future!

Cobalt Red

Been reading for a while as it’s pretty painful. I haven’t bought a rechargeable battery since I started and don’t know what I’m going to do when this phone dies.

'Techno-Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism' by Yanis Varoufakis.

Candide, or The Optimist by Voltaire

Really good short read