{"id":2703,"date":"2021-10-20T20:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T02:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2021-10-20T20:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T02:39:36","slug":"book-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2021\/10\/20\/book-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Recently read**<br \/>\n&#8211; A World Without Email by Cal Newport<br \/>\n&#8211; Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer<br \/>\n&#8211; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/p>\n<p>**Currently Reading**<br \/>\n&#8211; The Every by Dave Eggers<br \/>\n&#8211; Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport<br \/>\n&#8211; Two Old Men and a Baby by Hendrik Groen<br \/>\n&#8211; The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro<br \/>\n&#8211; A Philosophy of Walking by Fr\u00c3\u00a9d\u00c3\u00a9ric Gros<\/p>\n<p>**In the stack**<br \/>\n&#8211; Deep Work by Cal Newport<br \/>\n&#8211; Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar<br \/>\n&#8211; untangled by Lisa Damour<br \/>\n&#8211; The Great Mental Models vol. 2 and 3<br \/>\n&#8211; The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz<br \/>\n&#8211; The Odyssey by Homer \/ Emily Wilson translation<br \/>\n&#8211; Think Again by Adam Grant<\/p>\n<p>One common thread of these recent books is the impact of technology and science on society. (Well, maybe not *The Remains of the Day* I&#8217;m not too far into it thus far to know.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently done a major cleanup of some old computers I had, but then quickly went down a bit of a classic rabbit hole again. I wonder a lot about being more intentional about when and where I use  technology, social media, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, would love to hear from you if you&#8217;ve read any of these or have recommendations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Recently read** &#8211; A World Without Email by Cal Newport &#8211; Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer &#8211; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro **Currently Reading** &#8211; The Every by Dave Eggers &#8211; Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport &#8211; Two Old Men and a Baby by Hendrik Groen &#8211; The Remains of the Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-HB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}