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If you haven't read about neuroscience or digital antagonism this is a good primer but for me it's mostly review

The prose is both rather descriptive and achingly dull. Like, we don't know the age of the missing child until page 90 or so, and part of the details make him sound like an infant (a gummy smile) and some a preschooler (he can amusingly mispronounce "tyrannosaurus"). 18 months. Author is likely not a mother.

FINALLY done with the pentatuch!

Why is this like 15 or 16 year old girl so exposed/addicted to alcohol already?

Gosh this is overwrought

Great in theory, but what do you do with the mooches and hoarders and deadbeats? Even in a family, there's always someone who doesn't bring anything to the potluck.

Works best in small, close-knit communities (where everyone participates, I'm sure, hence the "reciprocity" thing).

Book is fruity and not just because of the berries in it.

seems to be a lot more history than neuroscience, for example.

History of advertising, from using advertisements to make newspaper prices lower and publishing lurid stories to increase sales, to selling snake oil and other patent medicines with false claims, to propaganda posters for WWI.

Bible in a year. Plugging from Jan 1 to Dec 31

Author doesn't appreciate Jane Jacob's tendency to be a gentrifier.

Ha, wealthy liberals don't want to live in density or among disgusting poors. I guess this is a surprise to nobody who has lived in a deep blue "enlightened" enclave like Cambridge or the DC suburbs.

I've moved 8 times in the past 21 years and some of these assertions are a bit confusing. He blames zoning, especially.

Getting antsy waiting for bad endings