I Read a Book a Week in 2025 (and Yes, It Almost Killed Me)
Sure, reading books is harder nowadays … but so is the world.
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What I'm Reading
A collection of 39 posts
Yes, This Thing Is Still On
Museum Human has been reading and studying to help keep the writing relevant. Especially now.
Links of the Week: January 31, 2025: The Year that Was, The Year that Is
Let's start off the year in links with a pile from last year.
Is There a "Joy Division" in Facing the World's Problems? A Review of Hospicing Modernity and What If We Get It Right?
Two recent books approach climate and societal collapse from different sides of the apparent doomer/hoptimism divide—with a side question of joyfulness.
Museum Human's End-of-Year Reading Break Rundown
You get a lot of reading done when you actually read.
In Search of the Counterintuitive: A Review of At Work in the Ruins and Museum Magazine's Issue on Convergence
Do we need more of the unexpected and surprising in our polarized world?
A Review of Bootstrapped and a Webinar on Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits
Organizations too often believe the twin myths of individual self-reliance and worker disempowerment.
Links of the Week: June 21, 2024: Trust Busting or Trust Building?
Museums can't preach trust in society without enacting it internally.
The Mindset to Matter: A Review of Why Museums Matter and Videogames and the Public Museum
Are museum leaders and workers speaking languages too different for institutions to thrive?
Limits and Rifts: A Review of Post Growth and Marx in the Anthropocene
We obsess about growth but do we think enough about limits?