Kindle
Yellow Face by R. F Kuang
I wonder if this topic, authenticity and who is allowed to speak about what, will be still a concern in 10-20 years. I presume, once more and more identity becomes more blurry, (like mentioned in the book), the unwritten rules need to be replaced. Gradually, then suddenly.
Never Enough by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
We are slowly and collectively ruining our kids’ future by spending more money and attention, hoping to one-up each other, making mediocre services rich along the way. Book should have been an article, but I will add this to my echo-chamber about education. Design the environment.
Hardcover
Choke Point by Rebecca Giblin
I am still amazed by the idea of passive protest days against Amazon (or any big tech) for that matter. Why hasn’t this
been done before, or has it? How to build more democratic platforms for creators is a wonderful problem. Choke points are bad.Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Hudson
A rare book, where one does not mystically and subtly boost his success while pretending to give re-usable sounding crappy advice. I understand a lot of it came from the internal stripe blog post, makes me wonder how I would have done in such place.
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg
Plan a lot, iterate and learn from the mistakes. What is the name of the phenomenon where, by the time it takes one to figure out how to manage/achieve difficult, one is never again in an easy position to do them again.
Time to think by Hannah Barnes
The gender topic is an endless well, where one can find himself on the ‘wrong’ side of the argument, since the sides of the same dargument are wide. One thing I am not surprised, how large organisations and system fails. This is very straight forward, I guess. What I really wanted to learn is the surge of the natal females who are referred to the clinic after 2013. I only found one link where it says NHS will investigate. Some of my wtf’s from the book:
- Some parents prefer their kids to be trans than gay.
- Being trans might considered as another way to hurt their body when they are in distress.
- Talking about this topic withouc vindicated as transphobic is not possible, even for the professionals.
- Blockers do not have long term studies and do not provide time to think. They don’t.
- gender dysphoria is not a mental illness, but it is treated with mental health professionals.
- gender non-comforming kids do not necessarily have gender dysphoria.