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sorry for spamming your feed today, if I did, ha!

1. In Praise of Idleness
Reminds me of Byung-Chul Han every so often, and whatever little I've read of his works, Russell feels and sounds vastly more optimistic, which makes reading him more enjoyable!

Going to read it as slowly as possible to enjoy it more than I can

Oh finally

before even finishing, i know i am going to give it no more than a 3 star if not less. at this point I should stop but mostly reading for the last 2 chapters

“Hello, this is Doktorr Talebski from the Academy of Lodz and I have an interrresting prrroblem,”

“Neurobiologists also have their side of the story. They believe (roughly) that we have three brains: [...] and the neocortex, or cognitive brain, that distinguishes primates and humans (note that even institutional investors seem to have a neocortex).”

idk why i am still reading

Aha don't get distracted by the no of pages, it seems a small book with 405 footnotes and almost a few dozen pages of bibliography!