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After finishing a few more titles by Thich Nhat Hanh today, I've moved on to an intriguing book by Scott Galloway titled, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (2017).

After enjoying The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan back in 2011, I am definitely eager to explore the socio-cultural and economic implications of what Galloway has dubbed, The Four Horsemen of the global economy. The book is written with an editorial flare which keeps the otherwise drab subjects of economics and business engaging and entertaining.

Galloway introduces the subject with a brief history of enterprise, from hunter-gatherers to the corner store, to the age of malls and big box stores before the unparalleled explosion of e-commerce. He frames each of these revolutions in the context of their respective impact on the consumer and then dives into the histories of the seemingly indomitable behemoths which now rule the market.

In the final chapters, Galloway explores what we can learn from the success of these corporations and postulates where the Four are taking us in the years ahead.

And of course, I found this latest read... in a post... on Facebook.

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I'm reading every Haruki Murakami book because they are hella sweet

I read the Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, and Norwegian Wood all in the last week

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself - by David Lipsky

It is one of the last non-fiction books related to David Foster Wallace that I haven't read yet. I just started on it last night. I've never actually read any of his fiction, but own almost all his non-fiction at this point. I'm hoping it can live up to my sky-high expectations, because I've been looking forward to reading this for a long time. Yes, it's technically written by another author, but it's mostly transcripts of David talking. I think this is some of the last material from David before he killed himself.


Otherwise I'm also reading a collection of letters written by the early 20th century Danish actress Asta Nielsen, plus I'm reading/looking through some photography collections I got recently.

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After networking with a gent who founded a Creative Commons media organization, I found that the footnotes of his site recommended Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free.

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I then realized that I had another of his titles yet unread on my Copyright bookshelf - Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future with an introduction by John Perry Barlow.

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In the true spirit of CC, Doctorow offers all of his writings in various formats for free on his website.

The essays offer a fascinating insider perspective of the content industry and I'm looking forward to learning more.

Mindhunter

Having first watched both the Netflix series' Mindhunter and Manhunt: Unabomber, it's cool spotting where each of the shows leaned on the book in exact ways.

this is going to give me invent app ideas, that have already been thought of prolly :/
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and then still working through:
have to get that pip file installed to go further, i gave up. because i scanned the internet for how to do it, then did it and it didnt work for me :/
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I know I'm late, but what did you think of it after finishing?

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been reading all his books and I hate to say this one was a total bomb. Super weak and pointless. All kindsa things brought up early as usual, but this time around nothing came back at all. None of it really ended up having any meaning. It's literally like half of a book