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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.
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Travis F W started reading Faces of Autism
Travis F W stopped reading F*ck No! by Sarah Knight (A No F*cks Given Guide)
Travis F W stopped reading Super Agers by Eric Topol
Travis F W started reading The art of happiness by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama
Travis F W rated How to Know a Person: 5 stars

How to Know a Person by David Brooks
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community …
Travis F W finished reading How to Know a Person by David Brooks
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.
Travis F W commented on How to Know a Person by David Brooks
Travis F W started reading Clean Code by Robert C. Martin (Robert C. Martin)
Travis F W started reading This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
Context for Cory Doctorow's Enshittification @emmecola@mastodon.uno @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Travis F W wants to read Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
Travis F W stopped reading Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Travis F W wants to read Aroused by Randi Hutter Epstein MD
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.
Travis F W commented on Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
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.










