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Thrift finds! I went to the city twice yesterday. The first was a failed endeavor, but the second was more fun anyways because @biblio_ginger and our Mum tagged along. I was really excited my sister found Shop Class As Soulcraft for me because unbeknownst to her it has been on my to buy list for a long time. Anyone else feel like a reading retreat is in order 😅? #thriftfinds #wannareadallday

This is my current #audiobook listen. It‘s interesting, and I‘m enjoying both the narrator and the book. But it‘s a lot about motorcycles and cars, which isn‘t really my thing. It‘s almost a book about motorcycles and cars that has a philosophical bent.

The keen understanding of the mechanisms of thought, as well as a lightly worn erudition make this short memoir/meditation unexpectedly appealing. Crawford appears to have a better understanding of both philosophy and craft than Sennett and is significantly less patronizing.

"If thinking is bound up with action, then the task of getting an adequate grasp of the world, intellectually, depends on our doing stuff in it." Horrible thought for us introverts ?

"Once a classical guitar-playing Buddhist vegetarian, he was now a gun freak and brilliant misanthropists."

I didn't really love this book. It was a little too heavy on philosophy and also on motorcycles. There are other kinds of manual labour that have nothing to do with engines. The quote I posted about dirty jokes made me roll my eyes. I dunno.

…they [managers] have to protect their bosses‘ “deniability” by using empty or abstract language to cover over problems, thereby keeping the field of subsequent interpretations as wide open as possible. The more troublesome a problem, the more desiccated and vague the public language…

Well, this author just lost me. Spent two years as the only woman on a job site and I've never been so uncomfortable, mostly because of bullshit like "you can tell dirty jokes."