2022 Year End Review
28 Dec 2022 - 01 Jan 2025
- State: up to Feb 23
World
- Ukraine war
Deaths
- Pope Himmler and Baba Wawa at the very end of the year
Books
- This is Your Mind on Plants, Pollan, Jan 7th, 2022
- Technic and Magic, Marh 25 or so
- Left Hand of Darkness, March 30 or so
- Mr. Punch (Gaiman, graphic, WS rec) 10 April
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Gaiman, graphic, 5 June
- Whole Earth (book), 23 June or so
- Throne of Jade (Temeraire, reread), 1 July
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke, Aug 6th, 2022 (WS red)
- The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood, Sep 10th, 2022
- A Study in Emerald, Gaiman (Graphic, based on a short), Sep 10th, 2022
- Apparently there is a whole subgenre of Cthulu/Sherlock Holmes mashups...
- Norse Mythology, Gaiman, Sep 26th, 2022
- The Nightmare Stacks, Stross, Oct 28th, 2022
- Fun, but meh. Too nerdy, and he's recycling the same ideas
- When the Angels Left the Old Country Dec 6th, 2022
- Daemon Voices, Pullman
- Software Design for Flexibility (working through it with a group at work)
- Unread books
- books I looked at and maybe got from library but didn't actually read (note: far too many to list, these are only those I might conceivably get back to)
- The Knowledge Machine, Strevens
- Open Democracy
- When Einstein walked with Godel, Holt
- I Contain Multitudes didn't finish, about halfway
- The Book of Disquiet
- If-then, how the simulatmatics corporation invented the future
- Life 3.0, Tegmark
- Living in Data some good bits but I didn't read mu
- Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder
- Human Compatible (Stuart Russell)
- The Extended Mind, Annie Paul
- The Age of AI, Kissenger, Schmidt, Huttenlocher
- skimmed a bit, seemed extremely broad and boring, although it's exciting to be only 2 Kevin Bacon-links away from a war criminal.
- Gene Machine, Ramakrishnan
- Oliver Sacks, River of Consciousness (2nd time, has a good thing on Freud neurologist)
- Drunk, Slingerland
- From bacteria to Back and Back, Dennett
- A Mind at Play (Claude Shannon bio)
- Advice Not Given (Mark Epstein)
- The Last Man Takes LSD, Dean & Zamora
- Foucault in California tripping out. Explores his complicated relatiomship with neoliberalism and Marxism. Mentions Chris Marker film A Grin Without a Cat I should watch that.
I am an experimenter in the sense that I write in order to change myself. – Foucault, 1978
- Death of the author stuff. "Beyond the sovereign subject". This stuff really seems relevant to my interests (or, makes them seem out of date, this stuff is from 50 years ago)
TV
- Severance!
- Expanse
- Succession
- Cells at Work
- The Peripheral
- Outer Range
- Rewatched Twin Peaks The Return, twice maybe?
- White Lotus S2 (eh)
- The Bear
Movies
- RRR
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Northman
- Cemetery of Splendor
- Glass Onion
Hacking
- Goddinpotty slowely evolving. Kind of deliberately not trying to build my dream PKM or anything dynamic, just hack something together with existing tools and simple code.
Web presence
- Fair # comments on LGM, some got some attention
- Twitter imploded, trying to move to Mastodon
- Fair amount of SneerClub
Random
- Dedication vs discipline
I’ve switched to entirely using “dedication” vs “discipline”, and it’s made a surprising difference to how I feel. Discipline feels hard, coercive, as if an outside force is making you act. Dedication, on the contrary, feels like a yearning, a pull from inside, rooted in desire.
— Kanjun 🐙 (@kanjun) February 10, 2022 - Huh this woman leads an AI company generally intelligent