I own that book. It was a fascinating read. I am currently reading Super Snoopers, about rivet joints.
I remember reading two books on the IC:
Body of Secrets for the NSA and
Legacy of Ashes for the CIA. For the Israeli Targeted Killing program, I have a monster of a publication I got maybe halfway through,
Rise up and Kill First which made some interesting claims about things like Ariel Sharon’s intentions for Lebanon during a certain time period. I mean I got other IC and military related books on my shelf but those were the big ones that come to mind.
For personal development, I’m actually listening to the audiobook version of David Goggins “Can’t Hurt Me” cause I really need to pattern myself to some extent on what he does, limitations be damned. I’ll figure out whatever tweaks I need to make to his methods that work with my neurodivergence. Read the book front to back before in 2020; the audiobook has additional commentary from goggins while someone else reads the book. So it’s an unexpected treat.
After that I’m kinda on a media studies/information warfare bent for the next 5 months. It’s an independent study I’m on rn; meant to finish it last year but last year was crazy. Gonna be looking at a lot of varied things like social media, marketing, psychology (political psychology mainly but also advertising), and memes.
Big theme this semester is “memetic infection” for a lack of a better term. We’re seeing social phenomena happening irl that are kinda terrifying to behold. And me and this prof are trying to make sense of it.
