∞ regress: What I've been reading

The Dawn of Everything is an extraordinary book that I will reread at least once in the years to come. Who knew prehistory could be so much fun? #

Four Thousand Weeks was not nearly as enjoyable. It had excellent reviews, mostly written by middle-aged men — a group I'm settling into — but there wasn't much there there. The badness of Productivity for its own sake and the benefits of rests are well-known to my own and younger generations, but do those born before the 1980s not know this already? #

Influence, Revised Edition came at an opportune moment: my wife and I were being invited to one of those time-share pitches. Had I not read the book I would've found the general oddness of the whole situation mystifying; knowing the techniques they were using made slightly more sense, but it was still awkward.#

Tools for Thought is a book before its time — it would've fit right into the modern complex systems cosmology cannon, but languishes in obscurity instead. Here's a small Twitter thread about it.#