Aside from that, the year has been going swimmingly in some ways. I've been doing a lot of reading, including fiction, for the first for quite some time and in a systematic way. I've been reading the Johannes Cabal series of books by Jonathan L. Howard which are both clever and amusing as well as a series by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris about the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. This is like a steampunk version of Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May books which are also worth reading.
On a political level, I've been revisiting Loren Goldner's writing whose analysis of the trajectory of the last 100 years of capital is incredibly persuasive. Particularly worth reading is:
