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Falko

maxheadroom@books.mxhdr.net

Joined 4 years, 8 months ago

reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.

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83% complete! Falko has read 5 of 6 books.

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster)

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.

David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, David Wengrow: The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity (2022, Penguin Books, Limited)

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 , , , and 1 other (Page 118 - 119)

David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, David Wengrow: The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity (2022, Penguin Books, Limited)

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 , , , and 1 other (Page 29 - 692)

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, fast and slow (Hardcover, 2011, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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"

David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, David Wengrow: The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity (2022, Penguin Books, Limited)

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