everything i read in october 2024
I had a day to go and I went with it. There was no plan. There was an outline, one which I could follow, floating, gently. There was no goal, no prey to be caught. I was not a circling raptor, a vulture, a shark, a big cat poised to spring. I was not on my guard. This was something else. I was on a journey. On my way home, I thought. I was travelin
... See moreBarbara J. Haveland • On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
I’m being borne forward on the river of time, with no possibility of stepping out of the flow, onward toward my inevitable death—which, to make matters even more ticklish, could arrive at any moment.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The world has become an infinite scroll of short-lived certainties. And time flicks through them increasingly faster.
And even if something new is on the horizon and feels a bit more like a lasting change, it’s usually something that makes everything else much more brittle, like AI, the climate crisis, or the so-called pre-war era we’re apparently ... See more
And even if something new is on the horizon and feels a bit more like a lasting change, it’s usually something that makes everything else much more brittle, like AI, the climate crisis, or the so-called pre-war era we’re apparently ... See more