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63 sats \ 3 replies \ @Blank 7 Jan \ on: What Did You Read in 2024? (v.2) BooksAndArticles
I was planning to read at least one book a month, but distractions happened I guess. Here is what I did read in 2024:
- Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
- The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
- The Expanse series by James SA Corey. If anyone has any scifi recommendations like this, I would love to hear them :)
- Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin - by Erik Cason
- 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - by Gigi
Nice nice nice.
Don't know Burnout, what's it about?
Also how is Varoufakis doing? Been a while since I heard from him
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Burnout society is about how modern society is causing a rise in mental health issues. Han talks about how we're always pushing ourselves to be productive and optimize everything, which leads to burnout, anxiety, and depression because we end up exploiting ourselves.
The Varoufakis book was a gift from my partner after she had listened to a podcast about anarcho-capitalism and thought I would be interested. I don't follow him, and probably won't read much more of his work. I guess his book did make me more aware of how much of my attention I give MSM, and other cloud platforms.
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