Lately, I have come to be afraid of acquiring new books. This is major because I have been reading a lot less than my liking, frankly because I have not had the time to do so for atleast a year now. Maybe I need to acquire a habit of gobbling books even with a hectic schedule, a constant not seeming to go away for now and possibly never in the future. That I shall do. But meanwhile, I have been reading a lot less and acquiring books at a much faster pace than managing to finish them.

This has to majorly change because it makes me quite guilty of two things: not reading enough and precisely because of that, being vain enough to collect many books and let them collect dust. The acquiring habit is not going away as far as I can see because the books I have on my shelf feel like an extension of me and frankly because that is a habit I do not wish to suppress. Meanwhile, I only envy the tremendous reading productivity of YouTuber’s like The Bookchemist and Better Than Food (both my favorite book review channels, great content, go subscribe!). An update on what I acquired most recently: Nassim Taleb’s Skin in the Game. Also, my girlfriend gifted me this printed copy of Kant’s Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics because that one was simply too expensive on Amazon or elsewhere. An update on what I am reading these days: Cal Newport’s Deep Work.

See you tomorrow,
Avi.