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Richard’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Richard Meadows
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Born
New Zealand
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December 2015
The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2022
I read exactly one (1) generalist nonfiction book all year. Normally I am a huge sucker for the kind of books that do the rounds on the podcast circuit—pop-science, sprawling anthropological syntheses, whatever self-help thing is zeitgeisty. Now I still buy them, but I can't summon the enthusiasm to actually get past the first chapter.
By way of contrast, I had no problem with narrative nonfiction
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Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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“Out in the real world, in which actual human beings live, it’s hard to come up with a more stupid example than 'ditching the daily latte'. Want to get your finances in order? Great! All you have to do is wean yourself off an addictive, stimulatory drug, which you’ve been using all your adult life, will cause withdrawal symptoms and impair your performance when you try to quit, is universally available, woven into the very fabric of social life, is the only addiction that carries no stigma whatsoever, and helped bring about the Enlightenment. Oh, and it’s also really frickin’ delicious.”
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
“Out in the real world, in which actual human beings live, it’s hard to come up with a more stupid example than 'ditching the daily latte'. Want to get your finances in order? Great! All you have to do is wean yourself off an addictive, stimulatory drug, which you’ve been using all your adult life, will cause withdrawal symptoms and impair your performance when you try to quit, is universally available, woven into the very fabric of social life, is the only addiction that carries no stigma whatsoever, and helped bring about the Enlightenment. Oh, and it’s also really frickin’ delicious.”
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
