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October monthly round-up
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I'm happy to say I cleaned up both the All Summaries and Blog Posts archives this month so you can now sort by things like author, title, date, rating and topic. I've kept the old pages for now in case of teething issues—please let me know if you see any! During October, I posted 2 book summaries and 3 blog posts: Book summaries
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My next summary will be for Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky, a thought-provoking book pushing back against "modest epistemology"—the idea that you should defer to "experts" or "the crowd" since the average person won't be able to outperform them. It was interesting to read this shortly after The Scout Mindset. The two books don't exactly contradict each other (and I found both to be valuable), but there's definitely a conflict in the general 'vibes'. Thanks for subscribing! Until next time, To Summarise |
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Happy New Year, everyone! Hope 2025 is going well for you so far. My first summary for the year is for The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn’t by Eugenia Cheng. The book takes ideas from math and formal logic and explains how they can be applied in the real world. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above (estimated time 29 mins). I've also published my criticisms of the book alongside the summary. KEY TAKEAWAYS...
Another year is nearly behind us. December was a quieter one, with only 1 book summary and my short yearly round-up: Book summaries Why Are the Prices So D*mn High? by Eric Helland and Alex Tabarrok (19 mins) — another free book looking at why services like education and healthcare have become so much more expensive since 1950, even as manufactured goods have gotten much cheaper . Blog posts 2024 round-up (5 mins) — I pick out my 3 favourite books this year and give a brief overview of how...
My latest summary is for Why Are the Prices So D*mn High? Health, Education and the Baumol Effect, which seeks to explain why it seems like prices in education and healthcare keep rising. Note that the book was published at the start of 2019 and is about the long-run trend of increasing prices in healthcare and education since 1950. It is not about the surge in inflation post-Covid. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above (estimated...