The Non-fiction Feature: Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
The Children’s Spot: Endlessly Ever After by Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat
The Product Spot: stickK
Author Archives: pithysummary
stickK
Understanding that there’s a big difference between having a goal and achieving it, stickK bridges this distance using loss aversion and accountability.
Endlessly Ever After
A beautifully illustrated book that’s also a fun way for kids to explore the impact of their choices.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
A clearer view of how the world is put together, how it functions, and how we can nudge each other for the better.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #51
The Non-fiction Feature: Presumed Guilty by Erwin Chemerinsky
The Memoir Spot: Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Ronald Cotton & Erin Torneo
The Product Spot: Innocence Project
Innocence Project
The Innocence Project works to exonerate those who have been wrongly convicted, by using DNA testing and other types of post-conviction relief.
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
“Picking Cotton” is a painful examination of how wrong our criminal justice system can be–both for those accusing and the accused.
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
The limits of humans’ physical capabilities, and how endurance can, and cannot, change those limits.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is a show about belief–what happens when we believe in the best of ourselves and others, and what happens when we don’t.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #50
The Non-fiction Feature: Endure by Alex Hutchinson
The Memoir Spot: Just Add Water by Katie Ledecky
The Product Spot: Ted Lasso