Books Because...
Reading books Most books aren’t worth reading. But the downside is capped: you can bail out as soon you realise it’s a dud, and you’ve only wasted ten bucks. This is an incredibly cheap option to take out, because every once in a while, you find a 'view quake' book which turns your whole world upside down.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Now I think we have newsletters, which is a relatively unmediated form of consuming someone’s stuff. And I feel like that’s right now, at least, where I follow the weirdest voices or get the complicated ideas to the point that sometimes they’re too complicated. I’m not reading your 8,000-word Substack on why you’re moving to Portugal or whatever.
‘The Ezra Klein Show’ • Opinion | How to Discover Your Own Taste - The New York Times
To read Apple books, you need an Apple device, and not everyone has one. But shouldn’t the book be the most accessible and durable medium of all?
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
Over just a matter of weeks, a spread of generic categories that most people enjoy refined themselves into a series of specific interests that I shared with a smaller group.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
the very possession of these books formed his identity as a reader, writer, and human being—even if he hadn’t read all of them.