Monthly Archives: April 2021
The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
Two topics that impact everyone – health and money.
Money is taught to us as a science like physics, with rules and laws. Need to balance that by teaching it like psychology, with emotions and nuance. History is also a major contributor, and should be factored in.
Bobos in Paradise – David Brooks
Capitalism – Bourgeois. Ambition, worldly success.
Counterculture – Bohemian. Creativity.
Starting to mix together in the late 1990s, creating a new class, Bobos (Bourgeois Bohemians)
Bullshit Jobs – David Graeber
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would reduce the hours of work required to live in Western Society to roughly 15 hours per week. This didn’t happen obviously, and the prevailing sentiment is that consumerism is to blame. Given the choice between less hours and more pleasures, people have gone for pleasures.
The Courage to Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Student – as you get older, you lose your innocence. Your romantic view of life is replaced by cruel realism. Responsibility and complicated relationships start to wear an adult down. Since religion is no longer prevalent in modern life, everyone is consumed by anxiety and doubt.
Philosopher – we don’t live in an objective world. Everything you see is different than what I see, and it is impossible to share your world with anyone else.