Reading as healing
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52% complete! Emily Gorcenski has read 37 of 70 books.
Everything is getting more complex.
It is easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of …
I’ve been meaning to read this ever since seeing it mentioned in my colleague Tiankai’s book. Should be a good quick airplane read.
There will be a day that this book serves as an explainer; today it is a warning
The artist and writer Jason Wee’s latest volume of poetry claims the imaginative terrain of …
A book-length poem on many future visions of what Asia could be, it commands introspection
Diving into Talia’s next book, which is all too relevant for our times
Ultimately this is a personal story, which is fine, but it leaves the broader treatment of a view in AI ethics underserved, and engages with issues that here in 2025 feel downstream of the material on the wrong branch
I’ll be surprised if this book covers much nee ground for me, but I feel like I should give it a read anyways to see if it’s something to recommend to folks.
This short book demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together and …
This is a book I wish I wrote, and also I long for more depth in this analysis. A good companion to Dan McQuillan’s book.
This short book demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together and …
I went to an AI conference in Silicon Valley so I need to balance out my soul.
Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first …
#8 on the Modern Library list. Relevant for today, but also fuck Stalinism
Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first …
Onto #8 of the Modern Library list. This book may be the most relevant piece of fiction I’ll read given our current times.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, …
I forgot how fast this book goes. First I’m taking off on a plane. Then I’m falling asleep. Next I know another 100 pages are behind me. That seems fitting. ML #18 done.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, …
On to #18 on the Modern Library list. I read this book many years ago, but I made a mistake and I read it and Catch 22 back to back, which is a bad idea. Almost as bad an idea as when I watched Donnie Darko and Requiem for a Dream on the same weekend.
A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous relationships.
Attachment theory has …
I learned a few things here, it made me think a bit. I’m also glad the book directly addresses attachment theory as explicitly not an identity model.
A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous relationships.
Attachment theory has …
Maybe I’ll figure out what everyone younger than 35 means when they get very upset about attachment styles.
