Category: Books

This is a book about what it means to be human. How we learn as we grow (but don’t have the vocabulary to understand or express the process). How we learn what our emotions are. How we interpret the motivations of those around us, including those that could be deliberately self-serving. What it means to…

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As I was reading this, I realized I was highlighting or bookmarking pretty much every page!

This is easily my book of the year, and possibly the last ten years. Not for the writing, but for the ideas that it generated and the understanding that I have hopefully developed.  This book picks up where Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel ends. The author focuses on the difference between Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich,…

I read this with my daughter and lead to great conversations about the society that we live in and that we would want to live in. Very topical, considering what has been going on in Afghanistan. Also very depressing, since the mentality that would result in this type of dystopia is too prevalent everywhere we…

What a wonderful little book, and how effortlessly the author describes the intuition behind some pretty deep maths concepts!

Another great recommendation from Rupali, and something that put a framework around some of my thinking. Very timely and related to what I’m working on now, and highly recommended. A bit of criticism: I did find the writing a bit superficial, and some of the examples could have focused on the discussion, rather than on…

What a wonderful, thought-provoking book. And depressing, since we immediately recognize the ‘yumen’ behavior. Even today, all the problems I see around us can be traced back to stubborn, monomaniacal extremists who have such deep faith in their beliefs that they cannot admit other perspectives.  Great comparison with Mindset and WEIRD people (to be linked…