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Simone Stolzoff
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The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans
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| The Other Side of Change is the perfect book for this moment. What I appreciated most was that it wasn't a series of prescriptive tips or "how-tos." Rather, the book is a series of engrossing stories. I, for one, learn so much more through narrative ...more | |
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How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers
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How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers:
"Simone Stolzoff's new book is an insightful, easy-to-read exploration of the art and science of uncertainty in life. The book is split into three main sections - Comfort, Hubris, and Control - that cover the most common reasons people shy away from u"
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How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers:
"This was a well-written and well-narrated bit of pop science. The stories were compelling and wide-ranging, the author had a good tone, and the pacing felt perfect. It’s definitely my favorite NF book of the year so far.
Thanks to Libro.Fm for the ALC" Read more of this review » |
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Charlie Kubal's review
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How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers:
"the rare book on uncertainty that doesn't try to sell you certainty by the end of it :)
very well written, easy to read with great tidbits and supporting examples: an sf tech worker whose life had become too predictable, so he built a system to random" Read more of this review » |
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My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past
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Simone Stolzoff
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The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
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Readers' Favorite Nonfiction
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Opening Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“We seek status because we don’t know our own preferences,” Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, told me. “When we don’t trust our own definition of what is good, we let other people define it for us.”
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
“Work will always be work. Some people work doing what they love. Other people work so that they can do what they love when they’re not working. Neither is more noble.”
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
“We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans.”
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
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