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David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (2022, Allen Lane) 4 stars

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …

Third chapter on seasonality was better, and contains interesting stuff. Still, can't help but feel the sharp dismissals of other models are so far contrasted by some pretty vague language for their own observations. It's also really wordy. I'd have liked this on 40-50% the number of words.

David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (2022, Allen Lane) 4 stars

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …

The accounts of Native American views on European societies are interesting but the style is grating and confusing and overall the text feels more like a highly political Twitter thread than an intellectual narrative. I hope this changes or it's going to be a long read.

finished reading Founders by Jimmy Soni

Jimmy Soni: Founders (2021, Simon & Schuster) 4 stars

An easy read about dotcom entrepreneurship around the turn of the millennium, and the startup phase of Paypal as a company in particular. Certainly worth a read if the era interests you.

It's worth noting the story essentially only covers the Paypal years and events leading up to them, not the many exploits of the persons involved in the many years that have since passed.

I started the book over a year ago, but kept getting sidetracked with other reading. It was easy enough to get back into though.

commented on Founders by Jimmy Soni

Jimmy Soni: Founders (2021, Simon & Schuster) 4 stars

Had to put this aside a couple of times for other reading commitments. Let’s see if I can finish it this time around.

To be honest, Elon Musk already occupies enough space in terms of news and attention that I’m somewhat reluctant to add more of him in my mind, but this is a different story, from a different era. So far I’m quite enjoying the book.