Essentialism

16th June 2014

I just finished reading ‘Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less’ by Greg McKeown. I actually bought this book by accident.  I thought it was going to be about the philosophical concept (that, for any specific entity, there is a set of attributes which are necessary to its identity and function)… but it turned out to […]

How Much is Enough?

27 June 2013

If the preceding post was of interest. You might like the book ‘How Much is Enough? : The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life’ by Robert and Edward Skidelsky. You can buy it at this huge multi-national corporation.

The Optimism Bias

31 January 2012

I’ve been reading a book called ‘The Optimism Bias‘ by Tali Sharot. In a nutshell, the premise of the book is that people tend to have a cognitive bias towards optimism, and that this bias has been naturally selected for because it helps us to get things done, to move forward, to procreate. The reality […]

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