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(welcome to my email dispatch! You can sign up for these or read the archive at buttondown.email/thesephist 💌) What I read I’ve been trying to get back into a regular habit of reading / listening to books. I listened to Gladwell’s The Bomber Mafia yesterday, which is written so compellingly and clearly even a relatively amateur to history like me could appreciate the story. Unlike Malcolm Gladwell’s usual books, this one is a more true-to-history documentarian book and less a drawn-out ted talk, and it’s quite short! I recommend it. I also started Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves, which opens with one of my favorite first sentences in any novel, The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. Bill Gates also has some nice things to say about it. I’m generally a fan of hard science fiction set in space, but in the past have found Stephenson’s writing a bit drawn out. We’ll see if I feel differently this time around. Besides books, I also read and thought a lot about creating go

July 15, 2024 Environments for thinking Hi friends, (welcome to my email dispatch! You can sign up for these or read the archive at buttondown.email/thesephist 💌) What I read I’ve been trying to get back into a regular habit of reading / listening to books. I listened to Gladwell’s The Bomber Mafia yesterday, which is written so compellingly and clearly even a relatively amateur to history like me could appreciate the story. Unlike Malcolm Gladwell’s usual books, this one is a more true-to-history documentarian book and less a drawn-out ted talk, and it’s quite short! I recommend it. I also s

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