What I’m reading
Before you ask, no not the Tenacious D/Kung Fu Panda/Jack Black. This Jack Black lived a life of safe-cracking, burglary, and general criminality, not building a mediocre filmography (still love your music, Jack). This book is an autobiography of a man who roamed about the American and Canadian West in the late 1800s, who found himself immersed in the seedy underworld of hop (heroin) joints...
I’ve been a fan of Tim Urban’s “Wait but Why” blog for several years. Much to my dismay, he didn’t post for several years. He had a kid and also was busy writing this book. He’s known for very long, in-depth blog posts written in conversational, approachable language about complex topics relating to modern society accompanied with goofy stick figure drawings...
I'm a tech junkie, writer, thinker, bass player, chess wannabe, distance biker and other stuff.