https://darkdell.net/reading/ Reading https://darkdell.net/reading/2026/ reading-2026-04 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 <ul> <li><em>The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains</em>, Nicholas Carr: Carr's exploration of how the internet and digital technologies are affecting our cognition, attention, and memory.</li> <li><em>The Prince</em>, Niccolò Machiavelli: Machiavelli's classic treatise on political power and statecraft.</li> <li><em>In Praise of Shadows</em>, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki: Tanizaki's essay on Japanese aesthetics and the beauty of darkness and shadow.</li> <li><em>Why Don't We Learn From History?</em>, B. H. Liddell Hart: Liddell Hart's examination of why nations and leaders repeatedly fail to learn from past mistakes.</li> <li><em>The Book of Tea</em>, Kakuzō Okakura: Okakura's meditation on the Japanese tea ceremony and its connection to art and philosophy.</li> </ul>