August 20, 2024August 20, 2024Book Summary Book Summary: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt You’re probably familiar with bad strategy. It’s full of fluff, lofty visions and desirable outcomes, with no clue on how to achieve […]
July 8, 2024July 8, 2024Book Summary Book Summary: Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir This summary of Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explains how scarcity changes the […]
June 9, 2024April 11, 2025Book Summary Book Summary: Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall This is a summary of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall. While the book’s […]
May 21, 2024July 7, 2024Book post Criticisms of “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt In this post, I levy several criticisms at Jonathan Haidt’s generally excellent book, The Righteous Mind. You can find my summary of […]
April 21, 2024June 4, 2025Book post Solutions in “Not the End of the World” Hannah Ritchie’s book Not the End of the World covers a range of solutions for each of the 7 major environmental problems […]
April 21, 2024October 1, 2024Book Summary Book Summary: Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie In Not the End of the World, Hannah Ritchie uses data to explain why we can stand to be more optimistic about […]
March 21, 2024July 7, 2024Book Summary Book Summary: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner Why did the Sydney Opera House ruin its architect’s career? What can we learn about megaprojects from Pixar’s movies? This summary of […]
February 5, 2024July 7, 2024Book Summary Book Summary: How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt This summary of How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explains how American democracy […]
January 21, 2024July 7, 2024Book post “Thinking in Systems” and Economics Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows uses many economics-related examples. Even though Meadows’ background is as an environmental scientist, she clearly knows […]
January 15, 2024April 11, 2025Book Summary Book Summary: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows This summary of Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows explains how systems thinking can help us better understand and change […]