August 2022 was very much the epicentre of my “Summer of Gainz“, and so I found myself with very little reading time but a lot of lifting progress to show for it (as I am writing this, I have just returned from a gym session and celebrate a hip-thrust PR (= personal record) of 100 kg).
The only reading — apart from work-related things —was Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and some passages from an unpublished sci-fi novel that I wrote in the late Autumn of 2018.
I’ll leave you with a little excerpt:
“The system is rigged against peaceful coexistence, if you’d read the script you’d know societies are bound to destroy each other. One environment and survival of the fittest. Competition down to the last atom. Sure, some escape into the realms of the purely virtual, but even they have to leave physical traces behind, high-power data centres deep below the sea or high in the up in the sky. One all-encompassing vulnerability, betting on pure chance to be left alone. So for decades it all zeros in on those physical remnants — how do you hide the hardware, the energy usage, how do you cut those last ties to the world?
You don’t, obviously. But you come pretty close to it.”