At the moment I'm reading:
* Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
* Bessel van der Kolk - The Body Keeps the Score
Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
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#12Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you believe in his ideas? I think the abundist philosophy is a fake moustache and a coat of paint on third way neoliberalism, which has proven time and again to have utterly failed as a political strategy in our current era. Ezra Klein’s ideas mostly feel tired, recycled, boring, outdated, and rudderless. We need true labor reform in this country, not less regulations and more trust in “altruistic developers”.
Pretty rude response, right?
It is an opinion. Interestingly because of that opinion I am actually looking at the book. At least reading the Wiki summary.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty rude response, right?
It is an opinion. Interestingly because of that opinion I am actually looking at the book. At least reading the Wiki summary.
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
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#16It's not very current, but I remember this being one of my favorite books back in college:
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is an opinion. Interestingly because of that opinion I am actually looking at the book. At least reading the Wiki summary.
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
He's trying to have discussion, who are you to tell people how to communicate?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
He's trying to have discussion, who are you to tell people how to communicate?
Sure, it's just a totally different conversation than what the thread's about, and a super rude one. I'm not the boss of him, but I guess I get to have off-topic conversations too. "Next time, on book recommendation threas, recommend another book, instead of writing a screed about how bad the politics of some other book are."
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#19The ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson explores technological and societal solutions to climate collapse in a novel form.
Starts in somewhat current time and follows humanity’s trajectory for the next 30-ish years.
I found it especially interesting because it does expose and address the socioeconomic issues preventing us from taking action on climate.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is an opinion. Interestingly because of that opinion I am actually looking at the book. At least reading the Wiki summary.
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
His comment was way less rude and way more productive than your comment.