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I’ve now began The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey. I’ve decided to go down the rabbit hole. I annotate passage that resonate: “ all I ever seem to feel these days is the disappearance of who I think I am” this book is a memoir by Harvey of her time as an insomniac. It’s a bit existential and as I was always a Camus fan, i’m only five chapters in, and I’m hooked.

The cover of the memoir, the shapeless unease a year of not sleeping by Samantha Harvey. The cover is black and has a tiger walking across it. There is a quote at the top, which says a masterpiece, so good I can hardly breathe. I’m completely floored by it by Helen McDonald.

I knew a guy who used to compete in swimming with Michael Phelps. I can’t remember if it was in high school or college, but yeah: competed against the actual Michael Phelps.

I asked him if Phelps was a nice guy and he laughed before saying no, he absolutely wasn’t.

“But he can’t be nice. He doesn’t have time to learn social niceties or how to be in a group. His entire life is built around being the best swimmer in the world.”

I think about this pretty often - especially when I hear stories about people who achieve fantastic things are actually jerks.

Anyway, here’s Ben Folds and, I’m just gonna say it: he’s a jerk.

But at least he’s self aware enough to own it, to say that he may have made bad choices but you, the reader, could see the logic. He constantly put his career in …

If you are currently living in the USA, add #OnTryanny by Timothy Snyder to the top of you're #book #reading list now!
The author goes through the 20 Points and Lessons of Tyranny/Fascism through history - how to spot it, how it was done in the past by people and countries, and what it can look like now - it is a perfect spring board on how to direct your knowledge and focus.
Most importantly, it tells you ways you can fight against it (in each lesson learn what to teach and what you can do). Despite being written a few years ago, the information is currently relevant and actively happening under the current USA administration (2025). I hope things do not end up like how they have for America. Stay strong and fight against #Fascism!
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