I thought I understood addiction as a disease. This book takes it to a whole other level. I highly recommend the book for people looking to understand the mechanisms and social attributes of chemical addition and dependency as told from an expert whose lives it!
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John rated The righteous mind: 4 stars
The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt
A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The …
John rated Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood: 4 stars
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he …
John rated Because Internet: 4 stars
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source …
John reviewed Never Enough by Judith Grisel
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare page-turning work of science that …
Review of 'Never Enough' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
John rated The opposite of hate: 4 stars
Sally Kohn: The opposite of hate (2018, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
The opposite of hate by Sally Kohn
"Television commentator Sally Kohn talks to leading scientists and researchers to investigate the evolutionary and cultural roots of hate, and …
John reviewed Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
"Challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, explotitation or genetics. …
Review of 'Discrimination and Disparities' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I am underwhelmed by the scientific rigor in this book. "Empirical" is a stretch. While Sowell provides lots of citations and raw data, he uses then to reach conclusions which fall over to the lightest of logical breezes. Unfortunately, the conclusions which stand to criticism arn’t the least bit new or interesting. I was hoping he would address some of the underpinnings of the discussed disparities, however he all but ignores huge societal factors such as red lining and environmental conditions.
Unfortunately, he often cited opinion pieces who's underlying methods I couldn't find.
I can appreciate the distinction between the types of discrimination, and I believe it to be a useful synchronization of terminology. That doesn't make up for the incompleteness of the rest of the book
Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Thaler and Sunstein develop libertarian paternalism as a middle path between command-and-control and strict-neutrality choice architectures. Libertarian paternalism protects humans …
John rated Team of teams: 4 stars
John rated Type-driven Development with Idris: 5 stars
John rated Oathbringer: 5 stars
John rated Calendrical calculations: 5 stars
John rated The Bands of Mourning: 5 stars
The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Saga #6)
Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads …
John rated The Alloy of Law: 5 stars
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #4)
"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to …