Brian

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Brian.

https://www.goodreads.com/bper

Scientific Traini...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Book cover for Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
I could have told my students that the only way I had managed to have a high-powered career and a husband and two sons was by being a tenured professor at a top university married to another tenured professor at the same university.
Brian
Well, it’s at least concrete, specific advice! (If completely unattainable by 99+% of us :) )
Loading...
Nick  Black
“...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you're not learning anywhere near enough”
Nick Black

Julian Fellowes
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
Julian Fellowes

Ariel Levy
“But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,' Jong continued. 'Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don't love or having Sex and the City on television, that is not liberation. If you start to think about women as if we're all Carrie on Sex and the City, well, the problem is: You're not going to elect Carrie to the Senate or to run your company. Let's see the Senate fifty percent female; let's see women in decision-making positions--that's power. Sexual freedom can be a smokescreen for how far we haven't come.”
Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Reza Negarestani
“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Rorke Denver
“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”
Rorke Denver, Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 321575 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
8095 Goodreads Developers — 3061 members — last activity Apr 12, 2026 05:10AM
Official group for developers on Goodreads to coordinate and build cool apps. For general Goodreads support, please visit our help page.
135171 Goodreads Inc Pop-Econ Reading Club (PERC) — 28 members — last activity Mar 26, 2015 01:34PM
A club for Goodreads employees to read and discuss books on economics that are not *too* hard.
25x33 Little Book of Common Sense Investing Buddy Reading — 2 members — last activity Nov 30, 2017 11:57PM
for buddy reading The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
4170 The Sword and Laser — 21665 members — last activity 56 minutes ago
Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser podcast and monthly book club pick. Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podca ...more
More of Brian’s groups…
year in books
Amy
Amy
2,517 books | 421 friends

Emily
4,143 books | 1,123 friends

Lisa Ja...
4,325 books | 675 friends

William...
769 books | 434 friends

Nimmy M...
792 books | 242 friends

Brooke
1,060 books | 152 friends

Jon Swartz
377 books | 96 friends

Jess Jo...
1,259 books | 259 friends

More friends…
Girls & Sex by Peggy OrensteinModern Romance by Aziz AnsariThe Gene by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Witches of Eastwick by John UpdikeLetters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
Fresh Air 2017
147 books — 40 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Brian

Lists liked by Brian