Travis F W started reading You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
Because @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io told me to.
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Nonfiction audio is my main thing. Autobiographies, parenting, science, social issues, and some business or anything educational.
I consider nonfiction to be a healthier and more useful view of the world than the news.
I have a few Mastodon accounts, like @travisfw@fosstodon.org
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Travis F W finished reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman
The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection …
The narrator of the audio book, Raymond Todd, was just impossible for me to listen to. A shame, because they could have been good stories.
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Note: All times used in this book…are solar time based on the sun's actual location in the sky which changes throughout the year. In contrast, clock time is based on an imaginary sun location that results on dividing time into equal 24 hour days throughout the year… for example solar 11am is 1 hour before solar noon.
— Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition by Brad Lancaster (Page 92)
Appreciate this small preaching on how inaccurate standard time is. And I find it hilarious Bezos is sponsoring a clock to keep "accurate" time for next millennia. longnow.org/clock/
Travis F W started reading Making Great Relationships by Rick Hanson
This is on my #somnambulistic list. Puts my kids to sleep with basic wisdom in a gentle, pleasant voice at 0.7 speed. (Audio book, of course.) I am sure it would work for anybody.
Travis F W wants to read Building a Non-Anxious Life by John Delony
Countless people are struggling with anxiety, angst and stress. Here's the good news: Anxiety doesn't …
Ch 1, "We Didn't Start the Fire, Sorta" really resonates.
Travis F W started reading Plant Hunter by Cassandra Leah Quave
Traditional shamanistic medicine meets western medicine!
Travis F W wants to read A City On Mars by Kelly Weinersmith
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate …
I would read this as food for thought regarding alternatives to property.
To me, space is where we can finally begin to stop talking about owning everything. The alternative would be to talk about ideal collective behavior, and acceptable individual choices wrt resources and situations.
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sophist_monster reviewed An Immense World by Ed Yong
A Sensitizing Read
5 stars
A really stunning exploration of sensing. And a really nice incorporation of von Uexküll's "umwelt." Particularly compelling is the emphasis upon the entanglement of communication and sensory capacity.
Travis F W wants to read An Immense World by Ed Yong
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …
Oooh. I want to read that too. Related: I'm trying to follow the work of the ESP project to translate cetacian vocalization using machine learning.
Travis F W started reading How To Raise A Boy by Michael C. Reichert
An important read for my son's dad.
Travis F W wants to read Why? the Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff
Cosmopsychism: sentience as an aspect of existence
Travis F W rated The Extended Mind: 5 stars
Travis F W wants to read The Unwritten Book by Samantha Hunt
Sounds wonderful.
Travis F W wants to read The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative …
Gotta read at least half of each book with Graeber on it!
Travis F W started reading Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our …
I'm trying to listen to several of these books pushing back against the infinite pressure to let life be consumed by work.