Current Things: December 2025
Currently Reading
Currently Watching
Currently In Queue
- The Phoenician Scheme
- Black Bag
- Heretic
- Challengers
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- The First Omen
- Skinamarink
Currently Listening
Currently Planning
- Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!
Concurrently
- On the video game front, I finished Donkey Kong Bananza: who would have thought it would be very very satisfying to just smash stuff for like 30 hours straight?
Finished in November:
Furiosa: George Miller needs to come out with more movies so that I’m not surprised every time at how his camera work is the best there is
Zootopia 2: This series somehow remains thematically sharp despite 8+ years between entries. It’s a good reminder that our problems are deep, but they’re not complicated 🍿
Hacks Season 1: One part throwback to the odd couple comedies of the 70s and 80s and one part modern story of how our society mistreats everyone– albeit unequally. Ashamed it took me this long to watch and have already started season 2. 📺
Finished reading: [Abundance](https://micro.blog/books/9781668023488) by Ezra Klein 📚 The book asks: "What is scarce that should be abundant? What is difficult to build that should be easy? What inventions do we need that we do not yet have?" You can imagine an alternate history where Kamala Harris won the election and these questions became a rallying cry. Instead, it's a vision of a future that takes the can-do attitude of pre-Donald Trump conservatism and the policy sensibilities of modern liberalism and argues the answer to many of our problems is...more. More housing, more energy, more innovation.Unfortunately, while more isn’t quite a bad word among certain political groups, it’s certainly met with a healthy dose of skepticism. Scarcity may be the safer bet in the short term of an uncertain world, but it’s exactly this aversion to risk that has caused America to stagnate. Can we learn again to be ok with crackpot theories that could lead to scientific breakthroughs? Can we rediscover our comfort with subsidizing a thousand million-dollar wrong ideas to produce a trillion-dollar good one? Can we remember that we don’t have to be bogged down by regulatory, societal, and political baggage?
“Can we solve our problems with supply?”
TBDjordon.me
Slow Horses, Season 6: not too much to say specifically about this season. This show just continues to be so much fun to watch. It’s a great reminder that the characters make the plot, not the other way around.
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