Nonfiction audio is my main thing. Autobiographies, parenting, science, social issues, and some business or anything educational.
I consider nonfiction to be a healthier and more useful view of the world than the news.
I have a few Mastodon accounts, like @travisfw@fosstodon.org
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The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet …
Even the most extraordinary genius can accomplish very little alone.
— The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (82%)
I, personally, receive this as a reminder that hero worship is misguided.
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how …
this is very nicely written and narrated. i am enjoying it very much.
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …
My partner wants to read this to me. Holding up pretty well, except for some tired sexist tropes (nothing too horrific … what do I expect from 40+ years), Heinlein's failure to predict cell phones, and the successful missions to Mars in recent decades. Still quite a few good lines and thought provoking scenarios.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is …
a good long list of #favoriteThings in an appendix in the back. Thank you, Ross Gay.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is …
Essay 80, "To Respect Each Others' Madness, and Right to be Wrong," is excellent.
I really appreciate very much of the principles and goals of the managerial methods described in here. It's about as close as corporate hierarchy gets to making sense.
Dr. Topol’s unprecedented, evidenced-based guide is about how you and your family and friends can …
good to occasionally review the bleeding edge of modern medicine
unabridged audio
I have come to appreciate, through this book, the "ethical" in #ENM. Before, I thought it was simply a necessary defense against the seemingly ubiquitous critical assumption that anything other than monogamy is unethical. But as I have listened, I have realized that, of course, #ethics drives the whole movement, and ethics circumscribes mononormativity, and ethical questions are the substance of every individual's decisions about how to love the people they love. It's all ethics! Honestly, maybe ENM could be defined as the ethical study of love and family, and the cultural practices framing them.
shortly later, "our brains are made out of meat, and our bodies experience thoughts."
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet …
confidence is just a varnish painted atop human frailty. — Green, on the yips
— The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (54%)
unabridged audio
I wish I could live in a world where everyone has read this book.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is …
Would you expect a book with this title to be saccharine? It delivers a balanced and grounded positivity in the presence and acknowledgement of common life challenges. Horrors, even. I value it very much, and confess I am drawing it out. Which is easy because the essays are short and there are a lot of them.
Yale professor Marissa King shows how anyone can build more meaningful and productive relationships based …
Honestly I kinda lost interest. I wanted to get into the heads of the different kinds of networkers more. Interesting; glad I read it; done.
Say no without being an ahole and save yourself from burnout with "pep talks …
I come back to this one every time I feel like a pushover and resent spending my limited energy on things other people just want to offload. Does it help? Well, Knight's attitude and wit help me feel better, so that's worth something.
From the National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of …
Definitely some interesting reporting, but not good for my psychology.
