This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
Inspired by something Drew said on The Lit Hub podcast, I’ve been rethinking how I’m organizing the books I want to read, and trying to cull a little by being a little more honest about what I’m actually going to read. A nice plan, but in practice, I’m just moving books into increasingly precarious piles on the floor around my bookshelves, and this morning I full...
**STEELMAN:** Folta’s narrative cleverly uses personal chaos as a lens to critique modern information consumption. By framing his book-pile collapse as both absurd and relatable, he taps into a broader cultural exhaustion with curation—whether of books, news, or even life choices. The embrace of "chaos shelving" isn’t just laziness; it’s a playful rejection of the pressure to optimize every aspect of existence. The Venn diagram promise suggests a desire to impose order on chaos, even if only hum...