I just finished binge reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Even conceding that for me a lot of it is confirmation bias, I found it to be one of the best books I’ve read in years. It taught me not only lots of things I didn’t know about the world, it also taught me new ways to think about the issues facing the world. And it made me confront a couple of mistakes I make when forming my opinions. Yes it is germane to our current pandemic.

A couple of quotes: (i’m saving lots of them for future Maxims.) “Urgency is one of the worst distorters of our worldview.” and “Cultural and religious stereotypes are useless for understanding the world.”