Autumn reading – healthier than doom scrolling

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I woke up earlier this month to a deluge of alerts on my phone about the news that a milestone of the Trump 2.0 administration was the appointment of Elon Musk to the “Department of Government Efficiency”. Which will be abbreviated to DOGE. Nice one Space Karen. I am currently actively in the eXit process, after discontinuing my active involvement on Musk’s toXic platform in the summer. It was part of a bid to stop doom scrolling. Doom scrolling had resulted in me learning about the tragic circumstances and aftermath of a friend’s untimely death.

I therefore sought solace by retreating more to the pages of books, either as physical editions or Kindle editions. Reading books help you learn – both for and about yourself. They also make you think, whereas much of social media seems to serve little cognitively enriching purpose. Possibly social media remains my vice at the moment (after stopping drinking over a year ago). I’ve not yet extracted myself fully from its clutches, and I am present on bluesky post-eXit.

With my focus on reading, I am now compiling regular posts about my reading list for the respective season. This is my list for the autumn – the summer list is still available here.

And in addition to reading, I am starting journaling – there will be a future post about that too!

Autumn Reading List

  • Serghei Sadohin, Hiding in Plain Sight: what Language says about being Human
  • Chip Heath / Dan Heath, Switch (the German book was part of a goodie bag for involvement in a transformation programme)
  • Eddie Izzard, Believe Me
  • Sarah Townsend, Confusables Vol. 2
  • David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs
  • Tom Albrighton, AI can’t write, but you can
  • Eddie Shleyner, Very Good Copy
  • Rod Judkins, The art of creative thinking
  • Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine
  • Dustin Staiger, Blame this book
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