https://brokensandals.net Tech, philosophy, book reviews, and other stuff. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:10:32 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/2026/crepitate b0857f21-b15b-4815-a8c5-94de3c9c55ed Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:10:32 -0700 Read here.]]> https://brokensandals.net/2026/breviger 2082d316-2632-4a68-b0dd-b9f0a3b0b8b6 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:53:00 -0800 Links; blather; reviews of a cozy game and a punishing game, a Holocaust novel, a lovecraftian sci-fi novel, an unpleasant romance(?) novel, a good dystopian sci-fi novel, an excellent time-travel show, an excellent time-travel movie, an overrated graphic novel, and a graphic novel I liked. https://brokensandals.net/2026/abseil e04df109-82c0-4c9e-8c5d-cf6d800bc1a2 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:13:00 -0800 Reviews of: a great new sci-fi novel, a classic historical murder mystery, a short book on normative realism, a geopolitics book I read for an upcoming meetup, a repetitive game, and a comic about college students. https://brokensandals.net/personal/2025-review fc049e10-d4e6-4468-a845-b8d306a200d4 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:57:00 -0800 Annual year-in-review. https://brokensandals.net/2025/bascule A94887A5-5B68-4E23-BC2B-76B36C3498F7 Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:58:00 -0800 Thoughts on Pascal's Wager; reviews of books on AI, ethics, other stuff. https://brokensandals.net/2025/escarpment 472F79B7-38FE-4410-B023-13259E1DB053 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Some reviews and short essays. https://brokensandals.net/2025/citrine f1118b29757a486286a20bbfcc50893f Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Links, reviews, and miscellaneous writing. https://brokensandals.net/2025/huemer-determinism-self-refutation a8df1c97650549c99686a1a172f71dd4 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Michael Huemer really knows how to goad a reader into responding to his work. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2025/methods-of-ethics 9b7871c89a5344359400700622d62df8 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwDFepx8l0 21fba7c9-4791-45e2-84e0-8715f5ad851e Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://brokensandals.net/personal/2024-review 8ac599812f5e40de95beac8156953ece Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Reports on various aspects of my life in 2024. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2024/limitarianism 7267b13952904f10b2d74871698905b4 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT ...with detailed notes in the form of a slideshow. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2024/what-we-owe-to-each-other d3f1f7a4b6c444ab814b8a1d5af1ea65 Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT ...with detailed notes in the form of a slideshow. https://brokensandals.net/2024/omscs-done 9910c3aa4dcb4ad49238d637f339fb05 Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Reflections on finishing my master's degree https://brokensandals.net/personal/2023-review 6ee18afa480845ca8a364969ada8fab6 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Like a holiday letter, but weird and inappropriately long! https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2023/favorites ff6643cc0250492585e69b99edf50d8f Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Some of the books, games, and music I enjoyed most in 2023. https://brokensandals.net/2023/justice-for-animals-utilitarianism 115775cba09a4188a41883cbc80b2661 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2023/utilitarianism-for-and-against 46d0ec0974cf41b3b6f836ca2a1a541c Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://brokensandals.net/2023/strange-loop ec2d534a5709420bbeecfb84207512e5 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2023/myth-of-sisyphus aa8d4e23c72449b8808d4622b83d8f1c Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://brokensandals.net/2023/in-defense-of-philosophy a8441920a05048068ac2fd2e81a97ac6 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:45 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/2023/already-so 6791d9a5141a4b9a8578848bd97ac9a7 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:40 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/2023/against-utopianism a34de7b7c84e4a9fb0da994c085d2048 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 10:19 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/personal/2022-review 637281d8675d4712bfe53938d44a1040 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:38 -0800 My holiday letter, only one month late! https://brokensandals.net/personal/reviews-as-notes 8bac04feed194457b35f58ceadf87e72 Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:05 -0800 a post about why i wrote so many posts last year https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2022/platonic f9ca3636bea242bc9caabf23f65f1b97 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:25 -0800 Review of Marisa G. Franco's book on friendship. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2022/displaced eb8484762f804292b218b5c6947aea9e Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:01 -0700 A book by and about refugees. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2022/precipice ebc108c9b9394dd9a071a9d0298efc06 Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:11 -0700 A book about existential risks. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2022/gambling-on-god d8800d7e9a8c4fbaafb0e31d40065619 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 23:36 -0700 Focusing on essays about the many-gods objection and the role of infinities in decision theory. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/sitting-pretty/ 1c564689-b71e-48cd-aa77-1e3a80c9a315 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:10 -0700 A book about disability and assumptions. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/better-never-to-have-been/ bb18c1c8-337b-45f1-aed6-6da5bd361eae Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:53 -0800 (I have a lot of issues with this book.) https://brokensandals.net/reviews/pathological-altruism/ 3d49fc49-3409-4a3f-9bd3-46e5bffe4714 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:54 -0800 https://brokensandals.net/personal/2021-review/ 4fdad228-15a8-431e-9a3e-0ebefe0470dd Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:47 -0800 There are cat pictures at the bottom. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/favorite-books-2021/ 572806ca-0baf-4bd7-9995-55fa1017c9fa Thu, 23 Dec 2021 01:01 -0800 I read another 30,000 pages; some of them were worth it. https://brokensandals.net/personal/please-dont-make-me-eat-that/ 42140584-e132-4ffe-9c2f-1b5afc72120e Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:21 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/personal/suicide/ 3e1e6386-08d3-4305-ab32-873d1da56442 Mon, 06 Sep 2021 17:55 -0700 Some personal reflections on misery. https://youtu.be/s-Oy7ZVqiPM 3a865158-3739-447f-9225-cdb754595caf Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:21 -0700 https://youtu.be/J1iv8lw1yoI 31aa1421-19dd-44d3-ba3d-0c32aa7b82cc Wed, 05 May 2021 23:55 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/philosophy/is-nonexistence-good/ 7d37fa31-426b-4592-adc7-e111b0e73af2 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:56 -0700 A response to David Benatar's argument as quoted in Suffering-Focused Ethics. https://youtu.be/1oFWzPVttfA ca0c8f34-c12f-4f3e-b4aa-c8205fc5eca6 Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:07 -0800 https://brokensandals.net/personal/2020-review f44359d6-c7b8-4109-8ff0-99f82b6c9da9 Sat, 26 Dec 2020 20:06 -0800 I really hope I never have cause to look back on this year with nostalgia. But it wasn't devoid of good. https://brokensandals.net/reviews/favorite-books-2020 7d6f6e72-e69f-41a4-bbae-ce9267445690 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 19:07 -0800 At least 2020 didn't find a way to ruin reading (knocks on wood). https://youtu.be/TreuQKYrzqs b1f29743-e35f-4c88-9aa5-ad323ac66121 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:49 -0700 https://youtu.be/Ht8fIotNx7o e27d2d4a-9501-497a-bb35-92f272903525 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 08:52 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/reviews/recommended-reading a86c345f-56dc-4a85-838d-d30027511c5b A partial list of books, stories, articles, and courses that I've found particularly memorable or impactful. Thu, 07 May 2020 04:57 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/technical/backup-tooling/making-backup-validation-easier f76a21e9-486a-4d67-937c-c957f69d4316 A couple strategies to make verifying backups easier. Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:59:50 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/technical/backup-tooling 9c7ae138-64a8-444d-9d05-a832cf90d198 Info on how to automatically backup data from a variety of apps/services. Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:16:00 -0700 https://brokensandals.net/technical/stuff-i-learned-writing-a-javascript-tracer 5f239574-cfc1-4a98-b0c9-5a437e76d54b Miscellaneous stuff I recently learned about javascript. Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:20:06 -0800 https://brokensandals.net/personal/2019-review fe952b76-0796-4a6f-a2d1-46009ba832b8 Just another year-review post. Includes cat pictures. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:56:55 -0800 https://brokensandals.net/reviews/favorite-books-2019 ea052cb9-28f1-48a0-bb44-0278e5ac9150 Some comments on a few of the best books I read this year - nonfiction, novels, and comics. Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:40:59 -0800