🚀More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Get to know the cast of characters shaping our modern world. Their sci-fi inspired dreams of colonizing space take priority over sustainability and taking care of people in need today. Becker is the man for the job as he can hold his own with the technical details to dispute the claims of smart people overtaken by groupthink.
💸The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
A well written sequel to The Psychology of Money. Good, but not as great as the first.
⚖️The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
A detailed explanation of how the current racial caste system can exist in a colorblind society. Extremely enlightening.
💩Enshittification by Corey Doctorow
You can feel how your experience with technology has gotten worse in the past decade. Now you know why and have a word for it.
📈The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2015 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
A deep cut in the album of AI books. Excerpts of interviews with key players in the world of AI. These firsthand accounts help capture the mindset of the true believers. It was actually a bit more balanced than I would have thought, but still mostly falls into the “AGI is coming soon” camp.