Causality is so much harder than we normally think
I was listening to a podcast recently that talked about how people’s family situations and upbringings affected how they turned out. It […]
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Book Summary: How to Decide by Annie Duke
Originally intended to be a workbook, How to Decide is intended to be more practical than Annie Duke’s earlier book, Thinking in […]
The “Shock Test” from How To Decide by Annie Duke
Take this quick “shock test” from How to Decide to see if you are overconfident in your estimates (like I was!)
Book Summary: The Practice by Seth Godin
Seth Godin’s “The Practice” is a collection of (not particularly well organised) blog posts put into a book. There are a couple of decent points in there but overall it’s not worth a read.
Book Summary: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
In Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond sets out to answer a question posed by one of his New Guinean friends: why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents? This is a detailed summary of the 20th anniversary edition of the book published in 2017.
Book Summary: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
In this detailed summary of Never Split the Difference, learn the negotiation techniques used by FBI hostage negotiators and how to apply them to your daily life.
Criticisms of “Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber
Graeber got 4 things wrong in his book, Bullshit Jobs. (1) That the rise of the information economy is bad. (2) That there has been a “bullshitization” of work. (3) That bullshit jobs are almost always demoralising. (4) The reasons for the inverse relationship between social value and economic value.
What I think Graeber got right in “Bullshit Jobs”
In this post I outline what I think David Graeber got right in his book, Bullshit Jobs. Other
My 7 categories of “bullshit jobs”
In the book Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber suggested 5 categories of bullshit jobs. However, I found it more useful to look at […]
Why I started this site
Update (as at Sep 2024): While this post still reflects why I started this site, my reasons for continuing it have changed. […]