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As somone with bipolar the insights on mania, career focus, perfection, and suicide are deeply pertinent. The focus on seasonal cycles and mixed episodes was enlightening and something I hope to prepare for in future. Night Falls Fast is well researched and approaches a delicate subject with empathy and scientific rigor. It's not a fun read but an important one nonetheless.

Its fascinating how close to reality this book is given it was written in 1952... living in a world dominated by automation that alienates workers from their labour. Machines take up more and more jobs, leaving the masses to become numb, drunk, consumers funded by UBI. Only a few engineers maintain their status and reap the rewards of their labour, but one by one, they make themselves redundant via their creations.