Jen > Recent Status Updates

Hate this book. Someone threw a bunch of prompts into AI and then called it a book and charged people to spend countless hours on a mindless task with no purpose and nothing productive to come out of any of it except wasting time, money…. and the resources that the AI sucked up. I hate this book.

Section 2: The Swarm. A good brief look into how the immune system works, how a virus works and what it is, and how pandemics evolve.

The first section: Warriors, is a dive into the history of medical science. While the takeaways are interesting (medical science did not progress for centuries and then made explosive progress in just a few decades) and important, it reads painfully like a who’s-who. So many names, and it’s dull as all get-out. The manner in which it’s written definitely means skim it unless you like to know who did what.

“...as a result, influenza kills more people in the United States than any other infectious disease...”

I love the different philosophical questions sprinkled in with the interpreting of this text. It’s fascinating to see through the eyes of a outsider to this culture. What does it mean to be a people/a culture? Does a text define it? How much of a kinship can we claim with our ancestors, when they may be more foreign to us than our contemporary neighbors in a foreign land?

Sometimes you read a page so lovely that you need to stop and take a moment to soak it in.

I am getting very tired of this book. There is a lot of cheerleading and anecdotes, but not a lot of substance. It points often to other resources, most expensive, without feeling like its giving solid strategies for help.

Chapter on Conation is perhaps the first solidly helpful and applicable chapter, rather than the previous chapters, which focused on why it is important to see ADD as a gift and to live your child. (That particular emphasis feels a little insulting).

Chapter on Conation is perhaps the first solidly helpful and applicable chapter, rather than the previous chapters, which focused on why it is important to see ADD as a gift and to live your child. (That particular emphasis feels a little insulting).

Chapter on Conation is perhaps the first solidly helpful and applicable chapter, rather than the previous chapters, which focused on why it is important to see ADD as a gift and to live your child. (That particular emphasis feels a little insulting).

Emphasizing the positive... while “you never allow your child to use ADD as an excuse or as a means of lowering sights or giving up.”

“Get educated. Don’t listen to only one person. Don’t rely only on medication, and don’t refuse to try it.”

A race car brain with bicycle brakes, as an analogy for ADD, and as a way to explain the diagnosis. “A diagnosis should kindle hope,” pg 44.

“Time is different. In the world of ADD there are really only two times: now and not now. Test in a week? Not now. While a child who doesn’t have ADD will start to plan how to get ready for the test, the child who has ADD waits until the test enters the zone of now, and then, in a panic, starts to prepare.”

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."

"Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life."