My new favorite book of all time
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My new favorite book of all time
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#2Interesting facts discussed:
* The global average IQ score is rising by about 3 IQ points every decade.
* Time spent doing laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to an hour and a half in 2014.
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#3He needs some dose of Taleb
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#4I listened to "Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens" by Eddie Izzard base on the last time Bill Gates book recommendations were on HN and it is superb so this is now an automatic buy for me.
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#5Strange. Ublock is blocking the whole blog content.
TL;dr - Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
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#6"Sapiens" is another great recommendation by him
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Sapiens-A-Brief-History-of-...
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#7I guess I can only give my opinion from my own limited world, but I feel to an extent that "reason, science, and humanism" are at need of advocacy today, more than usual. This book might be well timed.
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#9Good on Bill Gates to not just choose a feel-good book for sake of "virtue signaling", but a book with real substance in it. (The fact that this book happens to be optimistic is incidental)
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#10Interesting facts discussed: * The global average IQ score is rising by about 3 IQ points every decade. * Time spent doing laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to an hour and a half in 2014.
..on laundry, that hour and a half is spent washing a lot more clothes than the eleven before. If we had the limited wardrobes of those people, it'd probably be down to twenty minutes.