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Cognitive Inheritance: Why Your Parents Trust the News That Lies to Them
Cognitive inheritance explains why your parents trust the news that failed them. They aren’t gullible — the system earned their faith, then abandoned it.
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The City That Never Finishes
In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…
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Cognitive Inheritance: Why Your Parents Trust the News That Lies to Them
Cognitive inheritance explains why your parents trust the news that failed them. They aren’t gullible — the system earned their faith, then abandoned it.
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The City That Never Finishes
In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…
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OpenFit 2+ Open-Ear Headphones
I spent years treating headphones as isolation chambers. The point was to disappear — into a podcast, a playlist, the work. Block the world out, get something done. The Shokz OpenFit 2+ broke that habit. These aren’t noise-canceling. They don’t seal against your ear canal. They sit just outside it, directing sound inward while leaving…
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Meditations for Mortals
Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman is structured around four weeks of daily meditations, fourteen chapters in all. I did the audio version, one chapter a day, and I’d recommend that approach. There’s something about letting it unspool slowly — one idea, digested, before the next arrives — that mirrors what Burkeman is actually arguing…
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Range
David Epstein’s Range is one of those books that reads like someone finally put words to something you’d always suspected about yourself but couldn’t quite defend. The argument is this: generalists — people who wander across disciplines before settling, or never settle at all — outperform specialists over the long run. Both as individuals and…
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Churchill
I just finished Paul Johnson’s Churchill; it is a concise, well-crafted biography that manages to cover remarkable ground in relatively few pages. Johnson writes with clear admiration for Winston Churchill, but he doesn’t let that affection cloud his judgment. The book honestly addresses Churchill’s faults and failures alongside his triumphs, giving readers a balanced portrait…
