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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Summary:One of the world's greatest spiritual leaders teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for …
Not sure how far into this we're going to get. It's been on the shelf and my partner is reading it to me. Something to do together. Very nice.
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community …
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any …
A well researched and written book addressing a topic (named by the title) critically important to explore at the dawning of the age of #AI.
I especially appreciated how Brooks capped it with a chapter on wisdom, and what is a "community of truth." Particularly inspiring from my #HCI and #informatics -oriented mind.
I hope to relay some of the contents of this book to my children, if I can.
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any …
Returning to How To Know A Person after many months. Good insights. How to nurture our compassion.
Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development …
I started reading it years ago, and it's one of those books I'm just going to leave open for life. Not a book to finish, but to repeatedly remember to come back to.
Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.
Here, for the first time in …
2017? How did I miss this?
Narrated by the brilliant Stephen Fry, this audiobook features an inspiring prologue read by the …
Context for Cory Doctorow's Enshittification @emmecola@mastodon.uno @pluralistic@mamot.fr
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether …
I would hope endocrinology has made significant advances since this third edition in 2004, but this looks like a significant book anyway.
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From the bestselling author of Sex Object, a searing investigation into American culture’s obsession with virginity, and the argument for …
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In ...and forgive them their debts, renowned economist Michael Hudson - one of the …
The Mosaic injuction (Leviticus 25), "Proclaim liberty throughout the land," is inscribed on America's Liberty Bell. That is a translation of Hebrew deror, the debt Jubilee, cognate to the Akkadian adurārum. The liberty was originally from debt peonage.
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …
Halfway through I have lost interest. Too much sexism and toxic masculinity.
Since I was forced to take ritalin for five years of my chirdhood my endocrine system has been fucked. I have always been at a loss to describe these challenges, and learning about it has always taken a back seat to higher priorities like major depression and paying bills and PTSD triggers. But I have learned that some amino acid supplements can be really helpful at the right times (when I'm deficient) and it is time for me to tackle this. Maybe gain some insight into anhedonia while I am at it.
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …
When #Heinlein illustrated the Martian's maturity by having him kill someone and then have sex, and then go out on his own, and subsequently had the main female character say something victim blaming about rape, my interest in this book dropped to little more than a poorly substantiated drive to finish what I start.
