World of Wonders Aimie Nezhukumatathil
Written by a woman who blends her Philipino / Indian heritage part memoir part nature book can be read in snippets or gulped in
Close to a favorite for the year
I’ve read digitally imagine better in hard copy but my library did not have
Shady characters the secret life of punctuation .
A book on the two thousand year history of language - so,so as a book
FACTFULNESS Hans Rosling
I found this an interesting book I trying to understand the source and accuracies of data-base anything in todays’ world. He sets up the premise with examples of how he majority of experts will always 86% of the time gets wrong when trying to guess the statiscitslc facts f life:
Factfulness is recognizing when a story talks about a gap:
Beware of comparisons of averages
Beware of comparisons of extremes
Thé cost of discipleship
What would He that we / I should do
Get back to His words not our interpretation
Explains that gap for Lutherans
Finished listening too it. Enjoyed Recommend . Not light reading.
More comments to come
The Envelope Richard Paul Evans
This book written by the author of The Christmas Box this is not a Christmas story, this is not a cheerful story. It is a formulaic book written to optimize revenue. It is short, printed in aw ay and paginated such to make it look longer than it is. Padded with inner quotes, blank pages, and short chapters.
Set in Salt Lake, during the depression, parental avoidance, child deaths, marital discord, racial injustice, death with hope.
More of a downer as I said than uplifter wouldn’t recommend.
I found this an interesting book, I trying to understand the source and accuracies of data-base anything in todays’ world. He sets up the premise with examples of how the majority of experts will always 86% of the time gets wrong when trying to guess the statistical facts f life:
Factfulness is recognizing when a story talks about a gap:
Beware of comparisons of averages
Beware of comparisons of extremes
The view from up here - everything else looks equally short but it isn’t
None of us has all the mental capacity consume all the information out there
Critical thinking is always difficult, but its almost impossible when we scared
How to control getting angs out of proportion : compare and divide Never leave a number all by itself.
Being always in favor or always against any particular idea makes you blind to information that doesn't fit your perspective. This is usually a bad approach if you'd like to understand reality. Instead constantly test your favorite ideas for weakness be humble about the extent of your expertise be curious about new information that doesn't fit information from other fields. Great knowledge can interfere with an expert's ability to see what actually works. We should be highly skeptical about conclusions derived purely from number crunching
To control the single perspective instinct get a toolbox not a hammer; thankfulness is recognizing that a single perspective can limit your imagination. Beware of simple ideas and simple solutions; welcome complexity combine ideas solve problems on a case by case basis. Resist blaming of any kind - much more complicated than that because the problem is that when we identify the bad guy you're done thinking. Its almost always about multiple interacting causes, if you really want to change the world and understand how it actually works forget about punching anyone in the face. (Story of college protests want to punch
Education we should be teaching our children the fact-based update framework life on the four levels in the four regions.
Need to teach our children humility (you need to speak about extensively about the limits of knowledge; happy to say I don’t know everything and I can change my opinion.
Four Income Levels
1.Level One. - $2
Drinking Water
Transportation - foot - bike - Moto cycle - car
Cooking : fire - tank gas - gas portable top -oven top
Eating
Sleep
1B - NS. AMERICAN
1B - Europe
1b - Africa
4b - Asia
The Coddling of the american mind
Listened to the audio version - so no good notes. Enjoyed should have read instead. but definitely worthwhile
The lack of challenging curriculum american schools
Time on the River
Bill Gardner
A 200 day quest for a trophy muskey. On a quest which explains well Blair , and a portion of me. This is a classic for any devoted fisher of trophy fish. Not unlike izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation written in the mid 1600’s. Though I believe this was written in the 1980s. Both great books if you are a fisher of any passion, which I am.
Small Country - Gael Faye
"French-Rwandan Gael Faye-is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gael studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music."
