Part of looking back over the decade I’ve been working on Improve Something Today involved thinking about books. A lot of what I’ve written here is about books (e.g.). But here are nine books I feel like I’m always reading even after I put them down: three about work, three about the world, and three about Buddhism. They’re books I love! For each I offer a small invitation or comment. Take these as hints as to why these books in particular have made themselves comfortable in my brain.📖Links go to bookshop.org. Here you can order books, support local booksellers of your choosing, and allow some pennies to fall off as a commission for me. I keep a little storefront with all these books and more.Three books about workTheory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form, by Sianne Ngai (2022)Ngai opens her book with this set of questions:What are those of us living in capitalist societies saying when we call something a gimmick, regardless of the varying objects to which the…
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