Reviews and Comments

I certainly enjoyed the last book of his I read.

this is very nicely written and narrated. i am enjoying it very much.

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.

a good long list of #favoriteThings in an appendix in the back. Thank you, Ross Gay.

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.

good to occasionally review the bleeding edge of modern medicine

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.

I wish I could live in a world where everyone has read this book.

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.

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.

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.

Definitely some interesting reporting, but not good for my psychology.

Green's "review" of air conditioning is profound.

My partner tells me asking for help is a weakness of mine. I definitely have a perception that the way "the world" or "people" or "society" works requires me to be as self-reliant as possible. We'll see if and how that part of me can shift.