Reading
Books
- The Chaos Machine (2022) by Max Fisher
- Truthfully, the book that ruined my previous career choice.
- Digital Minimalism (2019) by Cal Newport
- Digital Minimalism is much more than a set of rules, it’s about cultivating a life worth living in our current age of alluring devices
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (2022) by Johann Hari
- Learn and be horrified in how and why our own devices and social networks have invested billions in designing themselves to be as addictive as possible. Burning Silicon Valley down has never sounded great.
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) by Mary Roach
- Atomic Habits (2018) by James Clear
- You Should Quit Reddit (2023) by Jacob Desforges
Meta Internet Criticism
- Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI - The Intrinsic Perspective, 2024
- We Need To Rewild The Internet - NOEMA, 2024
- The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok - WIRED, 2023
- Social media is doomed to die - TheVerge, 2023
- You Are Not a Brand - StayGrounded, 2022
- I’m a Luddite. You should be one too - The Conversation, 2021 ★
- The Small Website Discoverability Crisis - Marginalia, 2021 ★
- Create More Than You Consume if You Want to Worry Less and Feel More Fulfilled - Omaritani, 2021
- Contrachrome