Reviews and Comments

Geronimus is highly quotable, very thorough, and her insights are critically important for the medical community, public health, government policy, and progressive culture. I learned a lot, and I only got halfway through. Maybe I will finish it, but if the length of the book is at all daunting to you, know that every chapter is worth it, and even if you follow my lead and stop halfway through, I still recommend the first half of the book wholeheartedly.

THIS is the antidote for toxic productivity culture. Everyone should read this. Everyone.

Not bad. Personal account from an Autistic adult YouTuber. Not an expert at anything, and some of what he said seemed random, personal, or even questionable. But as an Autistic adult, myself, I identified with a lot of his stories.

I finished enough of it.

I wish I could give Lumanlan more stars, but with one kid and seemingly little direct input from families with many, I found a whole lot of distance between my daily challenges and the narrative. In my experience 2 kids is a different category of parenting than an only child. I got a vasectomy for my very survival. And I must say, you will not find a book on parenting written by an author with three kids close in age. Such is flatly impossible. But with that significant caveat, Jen Lumanlan's experience and research IS extensive and deep and as an expression of strife for a better future for humanity, I wholeheartedly commend this book as a necessary voice in the conversation about what parenting can be, and how we can side step some of the intergenerational trauma that is so ubiquitous that it is most often invisible within us.

Good book exploring the metaphor of an elephant and rider, acknowledging that we are not in full control, nor even very much in control, of our bodies and lives, and why happiness evades us. Haidt's breadth of research includes modern religious texts, and I find it refreshing to see an academic speaking to world culture instead of just his immediate peers.

This is an important book for me right now.

Basically the full picture. Critical reading for #decentralization, #DWeb, #privacy, and most of all #BigTech. ♥️

Doctorow's The Internet Con is a fantastic encapsulation of why Big Tech pisses people off so much. At least, me. And I hope you're not lulled into unconditional wealth worship, either.

Ripley begins by untroducing a new definition for the term "high conflict" and contrasting it with "good conflict".

So now I know the rest of the book will be written with the agenda of illustrating usage of the term. Fucking authors. Oh well, even if their usage of language is bullshit, Ripley probably has good insights.