Monday, August 29, 2016

Tribalism: Standing Up by Sitting Down

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There is a sense that in this world, one of the things that is missing is a belonging to a larger whole. We are alone or in small fam...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The Pyramid: The Fight for Personal Success in America

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I want to talk today about something that concerns me. It’s about work, and the possibility of moving up. The metaphor of the ladder has lo...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Prohibition Will Confuse Our Grandchildren as it Should Embarrass Us: Wainwright's "Narco-Nomics"

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Narco-nomics This was an interesting book with a good angle - the fact of prohibition drive so much crime both at the source of the drug...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

On Gleick's "The Information"

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This book is a wide-ranging take on information from before Babbage to today’s computers with a side trip through theories and practices of...

I Finally Read Piketty's Capital!

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This is one of those books I was looking forward to reading so much that I went and ordered it early, even though it was pretty pricey - co...

Utopias to Utopia: David Frayne's "The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work"

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This is an interesting text since I haven’t thought much myself about the systemic disalienation of your labor as a point of protest. The f...

On "Invisible Influence" by Jonah Berger

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I end up reading a lot of these kinds of books that are basically repackaged original research (much of it done by other researchers) that i...