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Both charming and informative about how statistics are misused. Published long ago, but the tricks haven't changed.
Both charming and informative about how statistics are misused. Published long ago, but the tricks haven't changed.
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There’s space, in this glorious linguistic web, for you.
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Content warning disucssion of mentioned economic concepts
Praises elon musk (I know, the book was published in 2019, before we knew he was a nazi. Still..), it's aged pretty badly. It's sci-fi without the plot. The brief moment it discusses pure policy is towards the end, claiming that UBI can't work because it didn't work one time with a very small amount of money, ignoring all the times it did work when using enough money to live on. It's fine, I guess, maybe as a starting off point to read some of these ideas in more detail somewhere else.
Also, the name of the book on the front cover is printed in some glittery ink that comes off on my fingers...
At the start of the book, I felt it referenced the good place a bit too often and it had me worried, but as the book progresses it settles into itself and builds on its own ideas, and it's definitely more than an addendum to the show. Of course it doesn't tell me how to actually be perfect in every scenario, but it's given me some good ideas on how I can approach things and how I can better understand other people's actions.
I'm not much of a philosophy nerd and if you are you probably won't get much out of this book, but as an introduction for an average person i think it works really well
They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a …
felt like the tv show was moving a bit slowly so wanted to see how the pacing in the book was :) i’m sure i can catch up before season 3 is out too
Homophobic slurs in the second story, model minority. Haven't seen this labelled anywhere else :/
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable …
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable …