jibone on Nostr: Next on my reading list. 📚 📙 Live Work Work Work Die: A journey into the savage ...

Next on my reading list. 📚

📙 Live Work Work Work Die: A journey into the savage heart of Silicon Valley.

📓 The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

📘 You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World.

📕 Monster: A Tough Love Letter on Taming The Machines That Rule Our Jobs, Lives, and Future.

I also have these queued in Kindle

📔 Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - And What We Can Do About It.

Clearly I’ve been watching too much tech #hopelesscore videos.

quoting note1kzz…jt4x

First book read in 2025: Non-Things by Byung-Chul Han.

We no longer create and cherish meaningful “things”. Instead, we produce and consume data and digital information, what this book refers to as “Non-Things”.

We may think that we are doing with data and information as “collecting”, but in reality, we are merely consuming.

We are transitioning into a non-materialistic existence, and that might not be a good thing. This is my first Byung-Chul Han book, and it is challenging me to reflect on how “non-things” are quietly replacing all the “things” that has once given life depth and meaning.

(And yes, the irony of reading this on a Kindle app on my Hisense Touch isn’t lost on me.)