New Year's Eve & Reading Goals for 2019
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I typically spend New Year's Eve all warm and cozy at home with a book. It'll probably be AI Superpowers (published just this year), which I started a couple days ago. So far, it's really intriguing:
As mentioned in my Top Ten of 2018, this was a great year in terms of number of books read, though it yielded fewer great books than I'd hoped for. However, given some unexpected personal challenges in the second half of this year, I'm just glad I kept reading.
Some goals for 2019:
- Blog at least once a week. Because of new work responsibilities, I'm unlikely to resuscitate the podcast any time soon, sadly to say. Till or if that happens, I plan to blog more frequently instead.
- Get spun up on philosophy. I've read bits and pieces of philosophy in the past, but next year, I want to really fill in the gaps. My hope is to learn about the influence of various philosophical movements on literature, history, and Christianity.
- Read even more nonfiction. In part, by committing half of my Mount TBR list to nonfic!
- Quit more books. I hate leaving books unfinished...but life is short and the reading stack is long. If I give a book a decent chance and I still dislike it, I commit to not finishing it.
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Right now I'm reading a sort of "crash course" philosophy intro (appropriate title Philosophy 101), to get my bearings. Probably in February, I'll be starting either Seneca or Descartes, whom I rescued from the thrift store. :)
AI Superpowers looks to be so interesting. I tend to like books that examine these big issues. Though it focuses on some different issues, I highly recommend Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence.
I have been filling in the gaps in terms of reading philosophy for a long time now. I have found it to be a lifetime project.