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I‘m just a girl standing in front of @realbatiwutschi trying to understand:

(I) the causal relationship of performativity - specifically performative masculinity - and internalised capitalist ideals, especially on social media: what is cause, symptom or co-produced?

(II) the materialisation of millieu-specific attributes and ‚gadget-isation’ of identity via filter bubbles and ‚aesthetics‘?

Welp

First sentence: throughout your life you will see your parents 15 more times. (Once a year for 15 more years, when they reach average life expectancy in the US).

This derailed me. So, I ran the numbers for myself.

At current rate of my visits and if she turns 85 I would see my mother between 40-60 times, my grandma maybe 2 times, my step-dad ca 10 times. I would see my best friends only ca 120 more times. Fml.

Reading for the Grindset - of course and it serves the purpose.
A few points, though that disturbed my reading flow:
- quoting Bill Cosby life wisdom on well being didn’t age well
- not sure it’s advisable to suggest that quitting law school to sell high heels - law students are so desperate they might actually do it (low-key tempted myself)

I can explain. No really I can

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Family: you must be reading such interesting things in your PhD?
Me:

I am deeply confused yet intrigued by this book and I have gained soooo many new perspectives my head is slightly spinning

Trying to get remotely close to my initial goal of reading 12 finance books this year! Next weeks will be wild - bare with me

Some key issues I have with this one:
1. Still wondering what consultants do. I’m half way through. I don’t think this book should keep such things implicit
2. The focus is on unethical projects rather than on unethical conduct and structural issues associated with consulting

Shocked! So not keen to age. Like wtf?!? It’s a trap…

Big shoutout to audible and my best friend (and her letting me join her audible account) for allowing me to indulge in such books without having to put them on my bookshelf on public display lol

For context (sorry cannot help it):
- i wish bones were 30£
- page 8 and there is two „Rhodies(!)“ which might happen in certain circles (such as the ones who gather aus Rhodes house) but still statistically very unrealistic

I highly recommend reading this.

To my five good reads connections: I think you should read this. It’s a bit like listening to strangers talking about their life lessons which is wholesome but it is also a scientifically grounded perspective on what constitutes a good life (in the US): lieben wir.

Goddesses who transform rapists into deers so they can be hunted down by his own dogs? Yes please.

Ich habe das Gefühl, dass ich rechtfertigen muss, dieses Buch zu lesen: ich kann das erklären:D

Mehrere Menschen haben mir empfohlen, dieses Buch zu lesen, weil es ihr Leben verändert hat und ich war am Frankfurter Bahnhof gestrandet und man kann dieses Buch eben in diesen Bahnhofkiosks kaufen. Ich befürchte, dass ich meinen Anschlusszug verpasse: Selbsthilfe scheint mir da besonders passend.

This will be a long term project and I’m honestly scared

This book is for obvious reasons part of a big longtermism hype in the effective altruism community which builds on core concepts Macaskill developed in “doing good better”.

Interim Review: Merely assessing the content of the book however I don’t get the hype. Rather I am in disbelief how he was not yet cancelled for his grotesque assessments of and opinions on climate change.