Travis F W started reading The Autism Relationships Handbook by Joe Biel
"Trauma is so common for autistic people that it crowds the ability for psychologists to diagnose adults."
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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 wants to read How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …
Having grown up in Alaska, I feel I have a different set of assumptions about infrastructure than most who grew up with higher population density. For a long time after I left the north, I still carried a knife, lighter, and flashlight. Convenient tools, if for no other reason than that others usually don't have them when they need them, but reflecting a lack of assumption on my part that wherever I find myself, I will necessarily have light and warmth, or need nothing more than my bare hands. Infrastructure is the difference, and its ubiquity in most lives is both freeing and limiting.
Travis F W wants to read Social Chemistry by Marissa King
Yale professor Marissa King shows how anyone can build more meaningful and productive relationships based …
I apparently bought it and forgot it. Back to the top of my list to read next.
Travis F W wants to read The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows …
This definitely belongs near the top of my list, especially considering I would be listening to the abridged 2012 audio version read by the author, Riane Eisler. Almost no excuse to leave it shelved.
Travis F W rated Self-Compassion: 1 star
Travis F W rated Debt: The First 5000 Years: 5 stars
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
Travis F W commented on The Balanced Brain by Camilla Nord
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers …
Nord's chapter 4, Motivation Drive and Wanting, strikes directly at the crux of my personal life challenges. The difference between wanting and pleasure. I want, and I have sometimes extreme drive, but I do not feel good about it, and am almost always disappointed. The countless times I have finished doing something and found myself pretending to be happy about it for the sake of others…
Travis F W started reading The Book of (More) Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is …
I enjoying these, specifically the account of drama beetween neighborhood cats which I just finished. A nice book I don't have to pay much attention to, but am glad to, when I do. A reminder to take delight where I can, not just think hard about everything and stay busy.
Travis F W commented on Together by Vivek H. Murthy
Content warning Judgment of insightfulness
In this section on male and female culture I really feel like the Surgeon General is two decades behind. Maybe he is watering it down to be broadly accessible? Or maybe he doesn't know as many psychologists as I do? But he really missed how feminist culture is bringing loneliness to the previously socially adept sex by adopting masculine individualistic values, and he really missed the huge trove of insight into the psychology of relationships that can be gleaned from queer, lgbt, ace and aro communities, and he only scratched the surface of intergenerational social trauma in men, and the possibilities for healing that young boys have access to now that their fathers and grandfathers should be paying attention to. I hope I am speaking too soon.
Travis F W started reading Together by Vivek H. Murthy
Pertinent for our time, considering the "culture war," politics, nuclear family dynamics and all the other divisive factors of modern life.
Travis F W started reading The Balanced Brain by Camilla Nord
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers …
The book I've been looking for all my life (really)
Travis F W started reading How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable …
I began this book over a year ago, but today is a good day to take it up again.
Travis F W commented on The abundant community by John McKnight (BK currents book)
There is a growing movement of people with a different vision for their local communities. …
As an anarchist systems thinker I have to say I don't appreciate how they clearly and emphatically imply that social systems are necessarily hierarchical. They draw a false dichotomy between community and systems. Systems are not diametrically opposed to communities. Systems are just repeating and interrelated behavior patterns plus the other resources that support those behavior patterns. Communities have systems, sometimes named, sometimes unrealized, sometimes designed, sometimes appreciated, and sometimes dysfunctional. Systems are a way to match complicated dynamics with declarative semantics so it can be acknowledged and manipulated, instantiated, moderated, or ended. Hierarchical organizations are just one type of a huge range of human systems.
Travis F W started reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative …
I am committed to at least taking in everything published by #Graeber eventually
In ch 6, Chen takes aim at the pathology mindset (and ingrained dysfunction) of the medical industry. Chen, then, moves on to eugenics. This is one of those chapters I want to be played on popular radio.