Category: books
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Little Free Library Willard San Francisco
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Podcast: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performanceJia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
The Ezra Klein Show: Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared: Abolish Silicon Valley, with Wendy Liu and Carl Miller
Interview about Wendy Liu’s book https://play.acast.com/s/intelligencesquared/abolishsiliconvalley-withwendyliuandcarlmiller
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“I think it’s possible that life’s too short to spend time with books that you don’t love” – Emily St. John Mandel
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Book readers on San Francisco Muni
I have started to notice more physical book reading on Muni.
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Why we read
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Calgary Central Library
Wow, I had not expected this of Calgary, Canada. The new Central library is a must see for anyone who loves public libraries. The architecture from the outside and the curved ceilings outside draws you in. The large community spaces when you walk in Then taking a tour, I realized the incredible amount of details…
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Emma Watson’s book club “Our Shared Shelf.” – While reading NY Times Sunday
While reading NY Times physical Sunday paper, I came across an article about Bumble’s CEO Whitney Wolf Herd’s work week diary. While the article was inspiring to see a day in the life of female CEO, I thought the mention of Emma Watson’s book club “Our Shared Shelf” is even more interesting. From a cursory…
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Book: Quotes from Skin In The Game that warrants more thought
I’m coming to the end of the book “Skin In The Game”. It’s not an easy book to read but I find the author is able to make some arguments that are not mainstream but very convincingly. Page :217 “you will not have an idea about what people really think, what predicts people’s action, merely…
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Valid criticism of Obama
While reading the book “Skin in the Game”, I saw several negative references to Barack Obama. At first I chalked it up for something for me to think about. After the latest reference on pg 156, I thought for brief moment to brush it off as a conservative author taking shots at a democratic president.…
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Book Notes: The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Raw notes from the book : The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias Not a binary notion, bounded ethicality Important to us that we are a good person, we feel threaten when we don’t hit the bar. We have blind spots, as a good person, if there is no room from…
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The Pop-up Bookclub
Recently I’m experimenting with starting up bookclubs at work in order to meet new people and helping to instill the habit of book reading into my own life. Here is what I’m doing Create a #bookclub channel on Slack Create a document with a list of books that anyone can propose Once there are 5…
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Book: Tell Me More
I loved this book (Tell Me More, by Kelly Corrigan). Once started, I couldn’t put it down. It is a book about the author’s journey to learn to do and say the hardest things in life. To learn to listen to her daughter and her dying father. I will just quote from her website instead.…