The list that defined 2024.
A Decent Life
Rating: TBD
A decent life is a new approach to finding a base for morality that helps govern day to day life, while being reasonable about expectations of altruism.
Goodbye Things
8/10 - Recommend
Fumio Sasaki writes about his journey from being an maximalist to a minimalist. He poetically talks about the freeing aspects of letting go of physical possessions and cherishing only the essentials. I read this in preparation for 2025 and I don’t think I am at the place to immediately become a minimalist, but this provided me with a good exercise of simplifying my life to a point that I felt like I was being more intentional with what I am bringing to 2025.
Crying in H-Mart
9/10 - Highly Recommend
A beautiful lens into the way we battle greiff, loss, and unmet expectations. I particularly loved the poetic nature of the prose and the beautiful depiction of Korean cuisine as a vehicle for conveying emotion, ideas, and place.
