13 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: “Amusing Ourselves to Death” explores whether Aldous Huxley’s fictional and dystopian vision of the future described in “Brave New World” hasn’t already turned into the reality of our TV-dominated and image-centered present. Spoiler alert: it has, and reality shows and Netflix are our pleasure drugs, our very own soma. Who […]
13 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: The Wisdom of Life is a short philosophical essay by Arthur Schopenhauer in which the most famous philosophical pessimist in history explores the nature of human happiness and tries to understand how one should order his life so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success. Who […]
14 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: The Sunflower by Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal is a two-part book which explores the limits of forgiveness. In the first part, Wiesenthal recounts how he got to be asked for forgiveness by a Nazi soldier; in the second, he shares the opinions of 53 people on whether he should have […]
14 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: How We Learn by Benedict Carey uses the newest findings related to the nature and biology of our brains as a springboard for a fun-to-read exploration of our learning habits and a sort of operational manual on how to tweak them so that you can harness the full power of […]
13 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: Doughnut Economics by Oxford academic Kate Raworth deconstructs the character of the rational economic man and challenges the necessity for never-ending economic growth by identifying seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has misled us, while sketching out an alternative plan on how we can satisfy humanity’s needs without overshooting […]
Quick Summary: The Upside of Irrationality is the second book by social scientist Dan Ariely, and it is a fitting follow-up to his first book, Predictably Irrational: if in his debut Ariely revealed the preprogrammed biases which instigate us to make unwise choices, here he shows the unexpected benefits (and, sometimes, downsides) of these decisions.
12 min read ⌚ Learn to Play the Great Game Want to be successful? Then you better learn how to play the great game. And the main lesson according to Wes Berry: Big Things Have Small Beginnings. Who Should Read “Big Things Have Small Beginnings”? And Why? Big Things Have Small Beginnings is a book about […]
11 min read ⌚ If you are a cricket fan, you already know what V. V. S. stands for in Laxman’s name: Very Very Special Laxman, of course. Well, here’s his autobiography: 281 and Beyond. Who Should Read “281 and Beyond”? And Why? The easiest – and, perhaps, best, answer to the first question is: the […]
6 min read ⌚ I’ve been a little bit surprised by the title of Taylor Pearson‘s book: The End of Jobs. My first thought was “wouldn’t be a better title: the end of jobs as we know them”? After all, there are a lot of factors involved in this discussion and it depends a lot on the type […]
4 min read ⌚ Marc Kuban – an American businessman, investor, and billionaire on one occasion implied: There’s no future that doesn’t have ambient computing voice or activation. Was he talking about Alexa? Not particularly, but it’s clear as to why developing voice assistant skills could be regarded as a thing of the future. In this […]
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