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Though fictitious, this is a very horrifying look into private equity's very real practices, and its chokehold on US prisons - or, "what businesses would do to all of us if they could get away with it." Full look-in on Brologue soon.

This was not, as I had imagined, about the titular fifth elephant crash-landing onto the Discworld after aeons congealing in orbit (a book with such a plot would be a pile of smouldering ash beyond the first page. I know), but something that comes much, much later. Something much, much more interesting, too. Expect a more thorough look-in on my blog soonish.

@Llinos@toot.wales mentioned this book to me. The only economising I've ever done with donuts is how many to buy from Greggs. This is, as she has told me, not a book about that, but how we might build a regenerative economy. Very interesting...

Again, I don't remember when I started reading this, but I'm on the third chapter and I'm currently getting a lot out of a brief detour on human thought (which I assume has been written by Graeber, I don't know): Neuroscientists claim the "window of consciousness" is open for seven seconds, and we spend most of our lives on autopilot, but what they often fail to mention on the back of this is that human thought is dialogical. That is, our window expands when we're talking to someone else.

I can't remember when I started reading this but so far it's been an eye-opener. I went into the field of cybersecurity thinking you could only hack computers. How wrong I was. Hacks are everywhere.

There's a lot of... err... superfluous guff in the first chapter. A reviewer left me with an important point, though: You can be a book full of genuinely good advice and be targeted to an audience privileged enough to take many things for granted. Giving it its due diligence and reading all the way through.