bookshelf

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)

Books that I am reading, have read, or will read

Updated fairly regularly, here’s a list of books

Currently Reading

• Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner
• The Phantom Tollbooth

Read 2026

• Against the Machine
  • A book about the fall of the West and what that means for our society and how we can rebuild a better society. It’s early in the year, but it will go down as one of my favorite books for the year simply because the author was about to articulate things I’ve thought, but haven’t been able to put them into words.