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March 24, 2025March 24, 2025Book Summary

Book Summary: A Hacker’s Mind by Bruce Schneier

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This summary of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back by security expert Bruce […]

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

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In The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness, Morgan Housel explains why success with money has more to […]

August 26, 2024August 26, 2024Book post

Is it better to be WEIRD?

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

August 12, 2024November 24, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich

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

July 8, 2024July 8, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir

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

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 […]

May 7, 2024July 7, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

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

October 24, 2023July 7, 2024Book post

Problems with “The Paradox of Choice”

I liked The Paradox of Choice. I liked it enough to read it twice. Schwartz makes some excellent points that paved the […]

October 19, 2023July 7, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

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This summary of Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert explains why we consistently err in predicting what will make us happy. The […]

September 19, 2023July 7, 2024Book post

Can maximisers become satisficers? If so, how?

A message that comes through strongly in Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice is the idea that we should try to become […]

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