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Reading/Listening

Books, podcasts, and music.

Books on the nightstand, podcasts in my ears, and the playlists getting me through PT.

  • The cover of Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer: a snow-covered Everest peak against a hazy blue-gray sky, with the subtitle 'A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster.'
    Into Thin Air

    Jon Krakauer's firsthand account of the 1996 Everest disaster. There is nothing better than reading about people freezing on an icy, snowbound mountain while it's 10,000 degrees outside my house.

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  • Vintage K-Mart storefront sign in its classic red script logo.
    Attention K-Mart Shoppers

    A treasure trove of in-store K-Mart tapes from the '80s and '90s, digitized by a former employee who saved the cassettes headed for the trash. Soft-focus elevator music, blue-light-special announcements, the whole thing. It is the most soothing background noise for icing my foot on the couch, and somehow it smells like a store I haven't stood in for thirty years.

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  • Cover art for the Scamfluencers podcast: a torn-paper collage of a woman's face in close-up with green eyeshadow, overlaid with the title in bold white and neon-yellow lettering and an 'audible ORIGINAL' banner across the top.
    Scamfluencers

    I've been listening to Wondery's Scamfluencers podcast that's been out for years, and just because I'm laid up and not commuting into the office weekly doesn't mean I'm missing it. It's still just as good, just as scammy.

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