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The Technology Trap
Carl Benedikt Frey
Thoughts

Just starting, but so far the author seems to express his ideas eloquently, and this certainly feels relevant to our day and age.

Note: a DNF isn't necessarily an indictment of the book. I'm fairly quick to drop books if they don't immediately grab me or if I find something more interesting, and I might come back to them in the future.

2025

64 books
January
  • Atomic Habits
    James Clear
February
  • Entangled Life
    Merlin Sheldrake
  • Life on the Rocks
    Juli Berwald
  • Spineless
    Juli Berwald
March
  • How to Stand Up to a Dictator
    Maria Ressa
  • Other Minds
    Peter Godfrey-Smith
April
  • The entire Murderbot Diaries series reread, 7 books
    Martha Wells
May
  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built
    Becky Chambers
  • Annie Bot
    Sierra Greer
  • Long Live Evil
    Sarah Rees Brennan
  • The Cloud Roads
    Martha Wells
  • The Fifth Season
    N. K. Jemisin
  • The Palace Near the Wind DNF
    Ai Jiang
  • Thrum
    Meg Smitherman
  • Wheel of the Infinite
    Martha Wells
  • Witch King
    Martha Wells
June
  • A Place of My Own
    Michael Pollan
  • A Prayer For The Crown-Shy
    Becky Chambers
  • A Talent for Murder
    Peter Swanson
  • Chokepoints DNF
    Edward Fishman
  • Firewalkers
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders
    Edited by Lisa A. White
  • The Botany of Desire
    Michael Pollan
  • The Familiar DNF
    Leigh Bardugo
  • The Sushi Economy DNF
    Sasha Issenberg
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate
    Becky Chambers
July
  • A House in the Cerulean Sea
    TJ Klune
  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
    T. Kingfisher
  • Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
    Heather Fawcett
  • Eve DNF
    Cat Bohannon
  • How to Change Your Mind DNF
    Michael Pollan
  • Service Model DNF
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Serviceberry
    Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Shards of Earth DNF
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Somewhere Beyond the Sea DNF
    TJ Klune
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma
    Michael Pollan
August
  • A Swim in the Pond in the Rain DNF
    George Saunders
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
    Kerry Patterson et al.
  • Master of Poisons DNF
    Andrea Hairston
  • The Long Way To a Small and Angry Planet
    Becky Chambers
  • The Terraformers DNF
    Annalee Newitz
  • This Is How You Lose The Time War
    Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
  • Tideline
    Elizabeth Bear
September
  • 4,000 Weeks
    Oliver Burkeman
  • A Deadly Education DNF
    Naomi Novik
  • Hemlock and Silver
    T. Kingfisher
  • The Lost Species DNF
    Christopher Kemp
  • This Is Your Mind On Plants DNF
    Michael Pollan
  • Why Fish Don’t Exist
    Lulu Miller
  • Your Computer Is On Fire DNF
    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney et al.
October
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death
    Neil Postman
  • The Next Conversation
    Jefferson Fisher
  • Underland DNF
    Robert Macfarlane
  • Why Nations Fail DNF
    Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
  • Writing Science
    Joshua Schimel
November
  • Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 DNF
    Edited by Susan Orlean
  • Fen, Bog, and Swamp DNF
    Annie Proulx
  • Into the Planet
    Jill Heinerth
  • Katabasis
    R. F. Kuang
  • The Odyssey ongoing
    Homer
December
  • Four Fish
    Paul Greenberg
  • Legends and Lattes DNF
    Travis Baldree
  • Neon Leviathan ongoing
    T. R. Napper
  • The Bear and the Nightingale
    Katherine Arden

2026

50 books
January
  • The Swamp DNF
    Michael Grunwald
  • Antifragile DNF
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reincarnation Blues
    Michael Poore
  • Station Eleven DNF
    Emily St. John Mandel
  • Stuff Matters
    Mark Miodownik
  • The Book of Hope
    Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society DNF
    John Scalzi
  • The Seep
    Chana Porter
  • Trap Line
    Timothy Zahn
  • We Are Legion, We Are Bob
    Dennis E. Taylor
February
  • Trust Me, I'm Lying
    Ryan Holiday
  • Waves and Beaches DNF
    Willard Bascom & Kim McCoy
March
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold DNF
    Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • Empire of AI
    Karen Hao
  • The Enchiridion DNF
    Epictetus
  • Who Is Government?
    Edited by Michael Lewis
  • Women, Seated
    Zhang Yueran
April
  • Better
    Atul Gawande
  • Nightfall
    Isaac Asimov
  • The Last Question reread
    Isaac Asimov
  • The Song of the Cell
    Siddhartha Mukherjee
May
  • Escape Pod 603 – An Equal Share of the Bone
    Karen Osborne
  • Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests
    Joan Maloof
  • Platform Decay
    Martha Wells
  • Saltcrop
    Yume Kitasei
  • Snake-Eater
    T. Kingfisher
  • The Checklist Manifesto
    Atul Gawande
  • The Jaunt
    Stephen King
  • The Ministry for the Future
    Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The Vishakanya's Choice
    Roshani Chokshi
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    Jules Verne
  • Waystation City
    A. T. Greenblatt
June
  • Slow Gods
    Claire North
  • Uprooted
    Naomi Novik
July
  • Breakneck
    Dan Wang
  • Jade City DNF
    Fonda Lee
  • Network Effect reread
    Martha Wells
  • Red Rising DNF
    Pierce Brown
  • When We Cease to Understand the World
    Benjamín Labatut
August
  • Addiction by Design ongoing
    Natasha Dow Schüll
  • Green City Wars
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Never Split the Difference
    Chris Voss
  • Reading Judas ongoing
    Elaine Pagels & Karen L. King
  • Silence
    Thich Nhat Hanh
  • The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
    Shannon Chakraborty
  • When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows DNF
    Steven Pinker
September
  • Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
    Ben Goldfarb
  • One Day All This Will Be Yours
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The Butcher of the Forest
    Premee Mohamed
  • To Shape a Dragon's Breath DNF
    Moniquill Blackgoose