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Thought Experiment: Would You Give Up the Ability to Enjoy Food?

Estimated reading time: 4 mins Imagine a world with two types of people, each of which make up around 50% of the […]

In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich never claims that WEIRD psychology (as in, the prevailing psychology in Western, Educated, […]

You’re probably familiar with bad strategy. It’s full of fluff, lofty visions and desirable outcomes, with no clue on how to achieve […]

My latest summary is for The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph […]

Getting Things Done and Deep Work are both highly influential books in the productivity space. David Allen first published his Getting Things […]

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen is a true classic in productivity circles. This summary explains how […]

This summary of Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explains how scarcity changes the […]

This is a summary of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall. While the book’s […]

In this post, I levy several criticisms at Jonathan Haidt’s generally excellent book, The Righteous Mind. You can find my summary of […]

In The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt argues that there’s more to morality than […]