Adam Grant's "Originals" And The Secret Of Geniuses
Originals' depth of analysis gives it a high rereading value.
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Why We Are Always Unhappy
The nature of happiness is such that if you aim for it 10 times out of 10, you might get it twice. Or not at all.
"Searching For Happiness," by Martin Thielen
"Searching for Happiness" plays it safe, and as a result falls short of its potential.
Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy by John Shelby Spong
Bible Literalism: A Gentile Heresy gets many things wrong and smacks of elitism.
Aaron Swartz On How To Rise Above The Political Cloaking Of Words
Aaron Swartz at Boston Wiki Meetup in 2009. Photo by Sage Ross, CC-BY-SA-2.0 “Transparency is a slippery word; the kind of word that, like reform, sounds good and so ends up getting attached to any random political thing that someone wants to promote. But just as it’s silly to talk about whether “reform” is useful (it depends on the reform), talking about transparency in general won’t get us very far. Everything from holding public hearings to requiring police to videotape interrogations can be called ' transparency '—there’s not much that’s useful to say about such a large category. In general, you should be sceptical whenever someone tries to sell you on something like ‘reform’ or ‘transparency.’ In general, you should be sceptical. But in particular, reactionary political movements have long had a history of cloaking themselves in nice words.” In a collection of essays, blog posts and lectures by Aaron Swartz (1986 - 2013) before his untimely death, the IT whizz kid e...