So, I blew past the goal I set on Goodreads. I tend to set it very low, because I want to take my time with things, and a lot of my day job involves reading things so I can explain them to people who were supposed to have read them and didn’t. However, due to the ongoing everything, I’ve been mainlining audiobooks when Edgar’s out of the house and I’ve made it extremely fa
Read MoreHere's a game: find a self-serious person in their thirties and, in conversation, refer to them as a millennial.
Read MoreI think that this resonates with many of us because we were given such reason to hope for the future when we were younger and it didn’t pan out. We were born in the “End of History,” when western liberal democracy had triumphed over the Soviet Union, and the future was supposed to just be an asymptotically perfecting version of the present with no huge revisions.
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