What This Place Is
A place to wind through my weird knowledge and connections based on my hyperfixations
My Current Hyperfixations
- The rise of pre-war fascism and how to relate it to the modern rise and countering it
- The British homefront in WWII
- Traditional planetary correspondences
- Planet Narnia by Michael Ward
- Community building
- Social psychology, particularly belonging and its relationship to developing extremist views
- Philosphy, particularly the philosophy of the soul and the sense of self, and how it ties in and through someone's sense of belonging
- Gardening
- Canadian Mennonite history
Books On the Go
- Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
- Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nigel Goodrick-Clarke
- Fascism in the Contemporary World: Ideology, Evolution, Resurgence by Anthony James Joes
- How to Talk About Anyone About Anything: The Practice of Safe Conversations by Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt
- The Joy of Wintering: How to Rest, Reconnect and Rejuvenate with Creativity and Conscious Living by Erin Niimi Longhurst
- Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane-McKinley
Books Completed 2026
- Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- Talk: The Science of Conversation by Elizabeth Stokoe
- New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok
- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
- The Book of Possibilities: Words of Wisdom on the Road to Becoming by Bee Quammie
Did Not Finish
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation to Fail by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Want to Read
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- How We Grow Up by Matt Richtel
- Cultivating Humanity by Martha Nussbaum
- Sex and Social Justice by Martha Nussbaum
- Hiding From Humanity by Martha Nussbaum
- From Disgust to Humanity by Martha Nussbaum
- Creating Capabilities by Martha Nussbaum
- Therapy of Desire by Martha Nussbaum
- Not For Profit by Martha Nussbaum
- The Liberalism of Fear by Judith Nisse Shklar
- Legalism by Judith Nisse Shklar
- Faces of Injustice by Judith Nisse Shklar
- After Utopia by Judith Nisse Shklar
- Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
- Testimony by Dori Laub and Shoshana Felman
- The Beautiful Risks of Education by Gert Biesta
- Epistemic Injustice by Miranda Fricker