The 20-Year-Old Point-of-View: The Final Stretch

I’ll be the first to admit that I have not been keeping this blog up to date with the latest developments in my reading. But rest assured, we have been keeping our promise to ourselves, and as of today, we are on week 43 of 52 in our one-book-a-week challenge.

A lot has changed since July — school has restarted back in person, and having found myself in a new position as a teaching assistant in my school has brought me plenty of new opportunities to think about and share the ideas that so many of these books have brought me. Let me give a brief overview of what I’ve been reading lately:

• The Alignment Problem, Brian Christian
• AI Superpowers, Kai-Fu Lee
• Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
• The Extended Mind, Annie Murphy Paul
• The Premonition, Michael Lewis
• The Four, Scott Galloway
• And more, but I’ve forgotten the order which I’ve read them in.

Perhaps the greatest trend is an opening towards more technology, health, and science oriented topics, in addition to the existing psychology, business, and (as much as I hate to admit it), self-help ones that I’ve become quite accustomed to. Only time will tell which ones of these books will serve me the best going forward, but for the time being, we might as well use a shotgun approach to reading.

There you have it. A small update on this journey of pages and thinking. Hopefully I’ll find some time to put together some more thoughts in time for the grand conclusion, but in the meantime, I recommend everyone to read The Extended Mind. It’s a very useful book, and I think you’ll find yourself engineering your surroundings a little more carefully once you read it.