3 Books recommended by Kara Swisher
Kara Anne Swisher is an American journalist. Described by Newsweek as Silicon Valley's "most powerful tech journalist", she is an opinion writer for The New York Times, a contributing editor at New York, the host of the podcast Sway, and the co-host of the podcast Pivot.Swisher, who previously wrote for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, co-founded Recode, the All Things Digital conference and the online publication All Things D. She has covered the internet since 1994.
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Book Recommendations
Trick Mirror
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
Literary CollectionsTrick mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. this is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. in each essay, jia writes about the cultural prisms that have shaped her: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the american scammer as millennial hero; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the mandate that everything, including
“I read Trick Mirror last year, but just listened to this superb book of essays by @jiatolentino as a contemplate my own and hearing her deliver these blue-flame insights, one after another, that are so exactly right on the internet landscape, inspires. Highly recommend.”
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Markings
Markings
Dag Hammarskjold
StatesmeanUniversally known and admired as a peacemaker, dag hammarskjöld concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. a dramatic account of spiritual struggle, markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964.markings is distinctive, as w.h. auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of "the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa."
“It was just so mind blowing. I had never thought of these issues and it really impacted me.”
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A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury
FictionA spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . these strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future. selected from his best-selling collections "the golden apples of the sun" and "r is for rocket," here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of
“Recommended on Tim Ferriss' podcast”
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