Category: culture
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Book Review: Little Bosses Everywhere, by Bridget Read
“Of course, I’m concerned about profits and losses. I just don’t give them top priority. That’s why I say, “P&L means people and love.” — Mary Kay Ash I love a good multi-level-marketing takedown, and this book delivered the goods. Read has done extensive research on the birth, evolution, and pervasive reach of pyramid schemes in America,…
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Book Review: How to Stay Smart in a Smart World, by Gerd Gigerenzer
How smart is it to trust ‘smart’ technologies? That’s the question at the heart of this book, which I picked up at Salted Books in Lisbon, Portugal (book-lovers, you will love Lisbon), where I also got this amazing tote bag. It was the first physical book I purchased in 2025, but in my typical fashion,…
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Book Review: Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ passenger-seat ride through the chaos years of Facebook is riveting, shocking, often funny, and perhaps a little too perfect.
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Book Review: Dopamine Nation, by Anna Lembke
Recently I listened to an episode of The Interview featuring Anna Lembke, MD, a professor and medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University. I was fascinated by the discussion and struck by her calm, open, and measured demeanour. It made the listening experience far more soothing than my typical 2.5X speed political analysis podcasts. Last…
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Book Review: The Extinction of Experience, by Christine Rosen
Dive into the unique aspects of Australian literature and its significance in the global literary scene.
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Book Review: Trust the Plan, by Will Sommer
Will Sommer’s ‘Trust the Plan’ suggests that the rise of conspiracy theories in the West has less to do with online algorithms and more to do with offline realities.