Rationality Book Club
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We are now reading Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, by Dan Wang.
On Oct. 17 we will discuss Chapter 4, One Child.
When we complete this book around November, our next selection will be Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness, by Jamil Zaki.
I look forward to seeing you!
Lisa
Previous books we've read - all highly recommended:
- The Scout Mindset, by Julia Galef
- Rationality, by Steven Pinker
- The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley
- The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
- The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- Determined, by Robert Sapolsky
- Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me), by Carol Tavris And Elliot Aronson
- How the World Really Works, by Vaclav Smil
- The Big Picture, by Sean Carroll
- 4000 Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman.
- The Best American Essays 2024, edited by Wesley Morris
- Think Again, by Adam Grant
- God Human Animal Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- The Pursuit of Liberty, by Jeffrey Rosen