May-June 2021

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 producing.

This series also maps my consumer habits, and how my time on Youtube and Instagram leads to shop projects and purchases, as well as influences my thoughts.

Producing

What I am Reading this Month:

Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein
Mental Models, Farnam Street
Introduction to Hegel
Effortless Mindfulness, Loch Kelly

What I am listening to this month:

Audio Books:

The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
gave up on Ready Player Two 🙁

Podcasts:

Philosophy for Our Times: A philosopher’s guide to being happy
Philosophy for our times: Do we really experience reality?
Philosophy for our times: The Logical labyrinth of expertise
The Philosopher’s zone: Ethics, philosophy and immigration
The Philosopher’s zone: Women and the Dhamma
The Philosopher’s Zone: What can David Hume teach us?
The Philosopher’s Zone: Chronomobilities
The Philosopher’s zone: Logic in Indian philosophy
The Philosopher’s Zone: Ecocultural Identity
Hidden Brain: Loss and Renewal
Hidden Brain: Our Noisy Minds
Tim Ferris: #515 Chris Bosh
Pop & Locke: Children of Men
Philosophy Bites: Liam Bright on Verificationism
Philosophy Bites: Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt
Philosophy Bites: Stephen Nadler on Spinoza
Making Sense: Corporate Cowardice
Making Sense: Broken Conversations, Jesse Singal
Making Sense: Order and Freedom
Making Sense: Distance & Arrival
Daily Stoic: Sebastian Junger
Under the Skin: get off my land! Nick Estes
The Knowledge Project: Joel Greenblatt, investing made simple
The Knowledge Project: Jim Collins: Relationships vs. Transactions
The Knowledge Project: Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior
Why Theory: Psychoanalysis and Theory
Acid Horizon: What is non-philosophy?
Acid Horizon: We must dismantle the face
Acid Horizon: There is no unhappy revolution
Channel 3: Robert Atkins

Article that had an impact:

Hedonistic Imperative, David Pearce

The Nerd Culture, Kevin Kelly (The Third culture)

What I am watching this month:

Ragnarok
Solar Opposites
Smoke and Bone

Without remorse prime (prime)
24 hours to live (prime)
Infinity chamber(prime)
Wire (?) (prime)
Army off the dead (Netflix)
Wrath of men (Jason Statham)

What I am consuming online

Youtube:

Not much… Some Rutger Bregman interviews

The commodification of philosophy

ContraPoints: the west

Philosophy Tube: Jordan Peterson’s ideology

Music:

Royal blood
Nick cave carnage
Glass animals
Roger waters
Fka twigs
Dinosaur Junior
Manchester orchestra
Yellow ostrich: softIslands
Twin shadow
Black keys ( Delta kream)
Perfume Genius
Dmx Califone

Consuming:

What I want:

A new 1,200 sf shop in the backyard…

What I got:

A cash-back refinance mortgage under 3% interest so I can build the shop I want.

It is really gonna happen boys and girls, I am going to get a big shop. Then figure out how much to spend on air conditioning, and which new tools I can afford after the thing will inevitably go over-budget. HAHAhahahaaa… (laughter hiding tears of despair.)

Groundbreaking should start in July.

Tools: Also Ordered the Seneca Domino Joiner plates _ this was an impulse buy off IG.

Bosch Battery powered Sawzall. At Lowe’s they had a “buy the bare tool, get a battery and charger for free” sale. So the Sawzall cost $119, and the battery (if you buy it) costs $129. So… that’s more than half off.

I have ordered Scraping Cards from Lee Valley in March… they appear to be backordered until July or August. My FLORIP Dovetail saw ordered through Woodcraft is also delayed since March, but perhaps July 16th they will send it to me.

Electronics: I purchased some Sony wh1000-XM4’s (on sale for $230… now it seems they are back up to $350) and I am just blown away by how cool they are. They really sound amazing, like the sound is inside your head. They also have lots of bells and whistles through software, one of my favorites is the ability to be synced to both my phone and laptop at the same time.

Everyday Carry: The Keyport, Pivot 2, which is a fancy key organizer. I don’t like the idea of having a chargeable tracking device on my keys, even though it may help. Also, I carry a Benchmade knife, so I don’t need the blade, but I do get tired of opening beer bottles with my knife and always looking for a pen or flash drive… so I had them on my key ring, but that makes it super cumbersome and nearly pulls my pants off since I have lost my butt in my old age.

I also got one for my dad for fathers day, but who knows if he will actually use it.

One bonus to the Keyport is the Omnifob, which I don’t need right now, but can see it coming in handy in the future to replace several devices (such as garage door openers and car fobs) in one handy little attachment.