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July monthly round-up
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I skipped June's monthly update because I only posted one summary, so I'll make up for that here. Since my last update in May, I posted 3 book summaries and 1 blog post: Book summaries
Blog posts
I'm partway through a summary of Joseph Henrich's fascinating but very long book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (even its title is long!). I hope to publish that next week. Thanks for subscribing! Until next time, To Summarise |
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My latest summary of This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee covers Tim’s invention of the web, the commercial and social forces that have reshaped it since, and Tim’s current push for data sovereignty. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS How the web was born. While at CERN, Tim conceived of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a decentralised way of organising information. He saw...
My latest summary is for The 12 Levers: The Complete Psychological Toolkit for Improving Your Life by Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson. In it, the authors attempt to distil the most useful techniques from over 100 self-help books into just 368 pages. Spencer founded Clearer Thinking, a research organisation that conducts studies and creates digital self-help tools for the public. I've been following Clearer Thinking's podcast for a few years and have gotten a lot of value from it, so...
My latest summary is for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. The "It" in the title refers to an artificial superintelligence that is vastly more capable than humans across a broad range of domains. The authors argue that once it crosses a certain threshold, such AI would pose an extinction-level threat to humanity. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS What is AI? One way to think...