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Peter Drucker and his book The Effective Executive, as well as Alain de Botton’s (page 486) How Proust Can Change Your Life.

Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

Peter Drucker and his

Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

For Komporozos-Athanasiou, a similar process is at work in the early twenty-first century: the recent collapse of neoliberal legitimacy and the rise of a heavily financialized digital capitalism have produced new uncertainties, out of which grow speculative communities, bound together by shared precarity and a stabilizing account of the future.

Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"

As Larry Summers and J. Bradford DeLong would write in August 2001, just a month after the file-sharing service Napster was taken down, ‘the most basic condition for economic efficiency … [is] that price equal marginal cost.’ They went on: ‘with information goods, the social and marginal cost of distribution is close to zero.’ This held true not on

Aaron Bastani • Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Capitalism approaches its exhaustion when human productivity is not just augmented by technology but replaced by it.

Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

Lyotard

James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

What if what goes by the name of innovation is ultimately just an opportunistic exploitation of regulatory gaps?

Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)

BECOME A CINEPHILE

Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

philosophy of technology use,