What I'm Reading — April 2023
How Rick Rubin lost 130lbs, Jaron Lanier, Amy Jay, Sarah Fay, Holly Whitaker, Toni Bentley, Daniel Duane, Lyle McKeany, Soaring Twenties, Minda Lane, Thomas J Bevan, Charles Eisenstein & Flow State
📖 The Surrender: an outstanding (and very explicit) erotic memoir by Toni Bentley
📖 El Capitan: Historic Feats and Radical Routes by Daniel Duane
📖 The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast, by Michael Scott Moore
can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI
by Alex Dobrenko`
I also love Jaron Lanier’s take, that There Is No A.I. “There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.”
I’m writing a utopian novel & essays imagining a more beautiful future by Elle Griffin
Words To Live by in 2023 by Lyle McKeany
The editorial code of Soaring Twenties a Substack writing collective
I Did What I Had To by Anna Fusco
Creation & the reclamation of my attention by Taylor Gage
No News Is Good News by Thomas J Bevan
Understanding the Dislocation Theory of Addiction — by way of Holly Whitaker’s Recovering Roundup, AI edition
Alex Perez on “masculine writing,” among other things — by way of Michael Mohr
Safety Third by Charles Eisenstein
The Rebirth of Rick Rubin — how he lost 130 pounds in 15 months
Loving Where You Live by Amy Jay
A classic from Holly Whitaker on 9 Reasons The Words “Alcoholic” and “Alcoholism” Should Die.
If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why. — NY Times → which reminds me how I’ve been saying that Advertising Is Obsolete.
Serialized memoir on Substack! Cured: The Memoir by Sarah Fay
Men, Myself, & I: Revelations of an Opened Marriage by Minda Lane
🎧 Sidirum—some great music to work by, from Flow State
🎧 Rick Rubin Says Trust Your Gut, Not Your Audience by Bari Weiss
And of course my own writing from this past month:
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Amazing picture. Paradise at night 🌃