Good Stuff
“I learned something about that little voice inside, the one you silence with rationalization or bury with office paperwork. He finds other ways to be subversive. He doesn’t like being kept on the path. That voice is as obstinate as a child, but he’s telling you how to behave like a man.”
NPR: Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect
They don’t challenge it, they reaffirm it.
Essay on Marcus Aurelius—Matthew Arnold
Bad Stuff
Full Frontal Feminism—Jessica Valenti
Saying that this is an awful book is really unfair because it’s not even a book. It’s a 250 page blog post (that is awful). It is also proof that most bloggers shouldn’t be given publishing deals and that Women’s Studies is without a doubt the least scholarly of all college majors.
Future Shock—Alvin Toffler
In the first wave, power came from violence or force. In the second, the Industrial Revolution, power came from wealth. Today, it comes from knowledge. The battle for the future is going to be over information. Unfortunately, the book takes 500 pages to say that.
Art and Fear–David Bayles
Decent, but not nearly as good as the War of Art.