As I write this entry in January 2025, I’m continuing to think about just what I’m trying to do and how best to do it. I’ve contemplated adding a section like this to my blog for some months. I’m not interested in merely listing the books I’m reading – “Hey, world! look at what I’m reading!” My selfish interest in doing this, and in doing it publicly (for the relatively few people who stumble into this small corner of the internet) is to hold myself accountable not only for reading the books I’ve decided to read but also (and more importantly) to push myself to think more carefully about what I’m reading. Doing it publicly is also part of the larger plan to move more of my thinking and writing into a public space — call it a digital garden. Even on a site as rarely visited as this one, there’s something about knowing that it’s available to others that changes my relationship to my thinking.
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