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I have mostly been reading for the past two weeks. I have not written much, but I have worked on improving some old posts and have put them on Medium. I am publishing them under my nom de plume, M. Bernard Bloom, which I will explain some other day after a few of my stories get picked up by a publication.
The three books that I have been reading are The Longing for Less by Kyle Chayka, Everything is F*cked by Mark Manson and The Psychology of Wealth by Dr. Charles Richards. In my ongoing effort to not continue accumulating hundreds of books per year that pile up on me, I checked these three out of two separate libraries that I frequent. For those who have never read through my other posts, I am a very avid reader who typically reads around a hundred books per year.
In my quest to reduce the amount of clutter in my life while improving it, I came across some posts and articles that referenced Chayka’s book and decided to read it for myself. I, too, long for less junk in my life, fewer items laying around unused and neater overall living and working spaces. Since my wife took the konmari method to me most weekends early last year when Ms. Kondo’s…