Reviews and Comments

This was an incredible memoir about the grind of isolation and misogyny. I don't really want to talk too much about what happens but, like, there's a reason Carmen Machado is the first back-of-the-book blurb praising it.

Not great. Despite being recommended to me as a book that applies neuroscience to education it mostly consisted of rather obvious points you would have noticed if you'd ever taught or learned anything (being upset makes it harder to learn? shocking!) but with vague bits of "and here's why neuroscience explains this thing we already knew since piaget"

I feel harsh saying it but this was one of those productivity books that's kind of "three blogposts stapled together"

It's not bad, just very thin and skimmable

If you've never read books like How to Change or Atomic Habits this might be exactly what you need and it'll take under two hours to read even not skimming

This is actually a re-read now that I have a lot more philosophy of mathematics under my belt

I've been using this book for a class and I've been really pleased with how she walks the line between accessibility and rigor. My only complaint is that I personally would have shrunk chapter 11 and expanded chapter 12 to include some first hints about PDAs and Turing machines, but otherwise it's great