reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Finally, dear reader, we dedicated this one to you, and we meant it. Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
still an awesome read and dive into the latest research on the origins of human society and capitalism at large.
All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The first in a series called …
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
Very good reading and insights so far.
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
If there is a riddle here it’s this: why, after millennia of constructing and disassembling forms of hierarchy, did Homo sapiens – supposedly the wisest of apes – allow permanent and intractable systems of inequality to take root? Was this really a consequence of adopting agriculture? Of settling down in permanent villages and, later, towns?
— The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, and 1 other (Page 118 - 119)
@ulf_der_freak@bookwyrm.social ich hab's auch irgendwann beiseite gelegt. Muss ich mal in einer ruhigen Minute nochmal anfangen.
The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, …
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
Suddenly, a few of the more powerful European kingdoms found themselves in control of vast stretches of the globe, and European intellectuals found themselves exposed, not only to the civilizations of China and India but to a whole plethora of previously unimagined social, scientific and political ideas. The ultimate result of this flood of new ideas came to be known as the ‘Enlightenment’.
— The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, and 1 other (Page 29 - 692)
Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, …
Putting this aside for a moment. It's interesting but also rather repetitive. Comment from a friend who tried it as well: "This should have been a blog post"
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there’s the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is.
— The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, and 1 other (Page 20 - 692)
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote …
Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, …
Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.
— Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman (Page 174)
@mcrocker@indieweb.social @LindaNagata@mastodon.online I think importing from the search results should be fine. Dunno if there is so much of a difference between the paperback and the ebook content wise.
