Reading for the Road
Nomadic life lends itself to reading, even frantically globe trotting. There is down time to kill while waiting for cabs, trains, buses and planes. Combined with the transit time of actually reaching your destination.
Other times geographical remoteness and limited resources play a part. Given limited internet connectivity combined with a finite supply of stored power you are forced into less resource intensive forms of recreation. Of which reading is the undisputed king!
When off grid for long periods my voracious appetite for books is near unstoppable. Leaving me on the permanent look out for recommendations on new titles to read.
So this page is intended as aid to others. Listing off recently finished books along with some of my thoughts on each.
I used to be a miserable fuck!
John KimHow to Change Your Mind
Michael PollanExtreme Ownership
Jocko Willink & Leif BabinLive the Life You Want With the Money You Have
Vince ScullyThe Backyard Homestead
Carleen MadiganOn Money
Rick MortonThe Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael PollanAll the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthyBitcoin: Everything divided by 21 Million
Knut SvanholmFight Club
Chuck PalahniukEgo is the Enemy
Ryan HolidayOptimal Money Flow: A New Vision of How a Dynamic-Growth Economy Can Work for Everyone
Lawrence C. MarshDiscipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
Ryan HalidayShort Fiction
Ray BradburyEpictetus: Short Works
Epictetus4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver BurkemanSid Meiers Memoir
Sid MeierRoughing It
Mark TwainThe Good Parts of AWS
Daniel Vassallo, Josh PschorrCult Of The Dead Cow
Joseph Menn
You don’t even know where I’m going.
I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.