Aug-Sept-Oct 2023

A list of books, audiobooks, podcasts, television, and more that I am consuming.
A list of achievements, articles, or plans in the shop to showcase my production.

This series also maps my consumer habits: my time on media can lead to more projects and purchases, as well as influence my thoughts.

Consuming

Reading :: Listening :: Watching

Producing

Wanting :: Getting :: Making

What I am Reading this Month:

The Parallax View, Slavoj Žižek

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262512688/the-parallax-view/

Articles

How to Own Your Human-Heartedness Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness	Maria Popova	https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/24/alan-watts-tao-jen/?mc_cid=b8f0aec876&mc_eid=a2a7953d49	–
The Revised Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger	Farnam Street	https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/	–
Beneath the Mask of Vulnerable Narcissism	Rob Henderson	https://open.substack.com/pub/robkhenderson/p/beneath-the-mask-of-vulnerable-narcissism?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
The End of the Subscription Era Is Coming	Nick Hilton	https://medium.com/@nickfthilton/the-end-of-the-subscription-era-is-coming-ed197f252c6a	–
Modern Masculinity Is Broken. Caitlin Moran Knows How to Fix It. – The New York Times	By David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya	https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/24/magazine/caitlin-moran-interview.html?algo=combo_lda_unique_clicks_decay_96_50_ranks&block=5&campaign_id=142&emc=edit_fory_20230927&fellback=false&imp_id=553350640655930&instance_id=103833&nl=for-you&nlid=60960614&pool=fye-rotating-profile-ls&rank=4®i_id=60960614&req_id=2252521759465208&segment_id=145885&surface=for-you-email-rotating-profile&user_id=78c823801025efc51ba51a107af6ede3&variant=0_best_algo	–
The Internet Is a Brain With Schizophrenia	John Carter	https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom/p/the-internet-is-a-brain-with-schizophrenia?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity—A Review	Rob Henderson	https://open.substack.com/pub/robkhenderson/p/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
Russell Brand and the Presumption of Innocence	Peter Ramsay	https://unherd.com/2023/09/russell-brand-and-the-presumption-of-innocence/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3	–
ChatGPT for You	Seth’s Blog	https://seths.blog/2023/09/chatgpt-for-you/	–
A Danish Artist Has Been Ordered to Repay a Museum After Delivering Blank Canvases	Laurel Wamsley	https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten	–
In Defense of the Human Brain	Talia Barnes	https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/in-defense-of-the-human-brain?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
The Paradox of Liberation	Rob Henderson	https://open.substack.com/pub/robkhenderson/p/the-paradox-of-liberation?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
Russell Brand’s Sexual Apocalpse	Jenny McCartney	https://unherd.com/?p=485743	–
Is This the End of the Soros Empire	Thomas Fazi	https://unherd.com/?p=484649	–
A Prophecy of Evil Tolkien, Lewis, and Technocratic Nihilism	N.S. Lyons	https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/a-prophecy-of-evil-tolkien-lewis?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
2.5 Years of Upheaval	N.S. Lyons	https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/25-years-of-upheaval?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
Creative Destruction	N.S. Lyons	https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/creative-destruction?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
The Change Merchants	N.S. Lyons	https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/the-change-merchants?r=5kfvm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post	–
Hack Your Brain With Obsidian.md	No Boilerplate	https://youtube.com/watch?v=DbsAQSIKQXk&si=wnHJ4l6KWN8ZQemj https://github.com/0atman/noboilerplate/	–
Series 9 The Cunning of Reason – Lecture 3 Positing the Presuppositions	Julian de Medeiros	https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/87634893	–
The Problem With Counterfeit People	Daniel C. Dennett	https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/	–
Walter Mosley Thinks America Is Getting Dumber – The New York Times	By David MarchesePhotograph by Mamadi Doumbouya	https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/06/magazine/walter-mosley-interview.html	–
The Ground-Floor Window Into What’s Ailing Downtowns	Emily Badger	https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/upshot/cities-downtowns-vacant-storefronts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare	–
How to Live a Happy Life, From a Leading Atheist	David Marchese	https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/27/magazine/daniel-dennett-interview.html	–
Why Note-Taking Apps Don’t Make Us Smarter – The Verge	Casey Newton	https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845590/note-taking-apps-ai-chat-distractions-notion-roam-mem-obsidian

What I am listening to this month:

Audio Books:

The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield

He Who Fights Monsters (1,2,3,4), Shirtaloon

Podcasts:

Woke Subjectivism — Feelings Over Facts \| Peter Boghossian & Mark Goldblatt	Conversations with Peter Boghossian	9/30/2023
America This Week, September 29, 2023 — “The Tell-Tale Reich”	America This Week	9/30/2023
America This Week, September 22, 2023	Racket To Go (private feed for …	9/30/2023
Klossowski and Nietzsche — Impulsional Theory in “Living Currency” With Vernon W. Cisney	Acid Horizon Patrons	9/29/2023
#18 Naval Ravikant — the Angel Philosopher	The Knowledge Project with Shane…	9/29/2023
New Episode — Reading (And Watching) in Opposition	$5 Subscribers: Weekly Q&A Audio…	9/27/2023
America This Week, September 22, 2023 —	Racket To Go (private feed for …	9/25/2023
America This Week, August 25, 2023 — “Normie Politics Is Dead”	Racket To Go (private feed for …	9/24/2023
Solarpunk and Its Discontents — the Politics of Science Fiction and the Solarpunk Genre	Acid Horizon Patrons	9/20/2023
Why Diversity Programs Need to Be ELIMINATED – Christopher Rufo	TRIGGERnometry	9/19/2023
Set Your Future Self Up for Success	The Art of Manliness	9/18/2023
Getting Everything, Losing Everything \| Anders Sandberg, Massimo Pigliucci, Mazviita Ch…	Philosophy For Our Times	9/15/2023
The High Cost of Luxury Beliefs \| Peter Boghossian & Rob Henderson	Conversations with Peter Boghossian	9/10/2023
How Philosophy Got Lost \| Slavoj Zizek	Philosophy For Our Times	9/6/2023
551- Office Space	99% Invisible	9/6/2023
Profane Illuminations — Theology for Militants	Zer0 Books and Repeater Media	9/2/2023
Žižek – The Parallax of Ontology	Žižek And So On	8/27/2023
Affirmative Action for the 1 Percent	The Daily	8/17/2023
What Is Coöperism? With Bernard Harcourt and Acid Horizon	Zer0 Books and Repeater Media	8/17/2023
The Fourth Turning — How History’s Crisis Period Could Unfold	The Art of Manliness	8/5/2023
The Case Against Democracy	TRIGGERnometry	8/5/2023
The Secret History of Gun Rights	The Daily	8/5/2023