Don’t Fall In Love With Ideas My 27th cardThis card basically says:“Congratulations. You didn’t fall in love with a person, ideology, or nation this time — only with your own catastrophic genius plan.”The dangerous thing about ideas is that they rarely arrive wearing villain costumes. Usually they arrive looking intelligent, noble, and emotionally very convincing … Read more
Good Omens Thursday.The terrifying thing about Good Omens is not that the Antichrist is evil.It is that he behaves exactly like a normal boy who has accidentally been given administrator access to reality. This chapter of Good Omens basically turns the apocalypse into an English summer holiday with bicycles, arguments about witches, and children accidentally inventing a new religion … Read more
Nicholas Carr The Shallows One Hal and MeThis chapter is basically Nicholas Carr realizing: “I went online to check one thing in 2003…and accidentally outsourced my entire brain.” The internet promised infinite knowledge but somehow turned humans into creatures emotionally unable to read three pages without checking another tab. Chapter 1 of The Shallows starts with one … Read more
Nicholas Carr – The ShallowsThe Shallows by Nicholas Carr explores how the internet is reshaping the way humans think, read, remember, and focus. The book argues that constant streams of information, notifications, and rapid digital habits slowly train the brain toward distraction instead of deep concentration. Carr combines neuroscience, philosophy, history, and personal reflection to ask a difficult … Read more
Ask A Fool – My 26th cardFunny summary:This card basically says:“Every serious organization secretly needs one professional idiot.”Because eventually every system becomes dangerous when everyone inside starts speaking fluent bureaucracy.The fool exists to ask questions like:“Are we rebuilding the Post Office…or are we all emotionally unable to admit the letters already won?”And honestly, Going Postal … Read more
Good Omens – WednesdayGood Omens slowly reveals that the apocalypse may not arrive with fire and terror.It may arrive on bicycles, eating candy, while adults remain completely unaware. Chapter 2 of Good Omens feels like the universe quietly realizing: “Oh no.The Antichrist is now eleven years old… and nobody checked where he ended up.” Meanwhile Crowley and … Read more
Good Omen – eleven years ago Good Omens starts like the Book of Revelation rewritten by Monty Python.And after one chapter, I already trust the demon more than upper management in Heaven. Chapter 1 of Good Omens basically says: “The end of the world is coming.Unfortunately, the people responsible are idiots.” We begin with angels, demons, prophecies, … Read more
See The Big Picture – My 25th cardFunny summary: This card basically says: “Congratulations.You invented a train.Unfortunately you also invented:competition, faster capitalism, long-distance romance, existentialism, and probably modern stress.” Humans are amazing at seeing the machine itselfand terrible at seeing what the machine will eventually do to society. I really like this card because it … Read more
Kazuo Ishiguro The Buried Giant SummaryThe Buried Giant felt to me less like reading a fantasy novel and more like walking slowly through fog with human memory itself sitting somewhere beside the road, watching quietly. If you read the book quickly, it can almost seem simple:old knights, dragons, Saxons, Britons, forgotten wars, mysterious journeys.But reading it … Read more
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Buried Giant Chapter 17.Chapter 17 feels like the moment the fog finally lifts and everyone realizes memory is far less romantic than philosophers and old warriors promised around campfires. As Axl and Beatrice face the boatman and the return of buried truths, the novel quietly reveals that love can survive many … Read more