Riches
"As soon as you can read, you are incredibly rich.” Fran Lebowitz A very clever writer if you like dry...
Tag: books
Book Recommendation Three
Against Empathy by Paul Bloom In this short book Bloom argues against the instinctive empathy that drives so...
Book Recommendation Two
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell Black Lives Matter has been on the agenda longer than Covid 19....
Book Recommendation One
“Urgency is one of the worst distorters of our world view.” Hans Rosling in Factfulness I read...
Earned Prosperity
A lot of people could be employed in the tedious work of digitizing and cataloging old books and records. I seems...
Words Seldom Seen: Savant
Savant Noun: A learned person, especially one who grasps advanced concepts quickly. Example: "Nicolas Tesla...
Words Seldom Seen: Bowdlerize
Bowlderize Bowlderize, verb: To remove text that is considered offensive from a published work. Example:...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime." Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston There is...
Binge Reading Factfulness
I just finished binge reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Even conceding that for me a lot of it is confirmation...
The Widow’s Strike
Since many of you are sheltering at home and are already giving up on reading Thackeray or Adam Smith I'd like to...
