The Non-fiction Feature: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Children’s Spot: In My Heart by Jo Witek
The Product Spot: Tetris
Author Archives: Carlen
Tetris
Tetris can pull you out of an anxious mental state into a calmer state of flow, where you are doing something somewhat repetitive that requires some skill and strategy.
In My Heart – A Book of Feelings
This is a lovely little book that goes through various feelings and explains what they feel like, and if they don’t feel good, how you might go about feeling better.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
An examination of how we think the way we think via System 1 (intuitive) and System 2 (deliberative).
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade
Ann Fessler brings forth the secret stories of an event that affected over a million women in the decades before Roe v. Wade: the surrender of their babies for adoption due to familial, religious, and social pressures.
UN Women Data Hub
The UN Women Data Hub has reports on data on security and violence against women across the world, findings on how multiple countries left behind women in pandemic responses, and a comprehensive library of resources.
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The modern world revolves around data, but because data treats men (not women) as the default, bias against women is inherent in the systems that run our lives.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #40
The Non-fiction Feature: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
The Memoir Spot: The Girls Who Went Away – Ann Fessler
The Product Spot: UN Women Data Hub
The Monthly Bulletin: August 2024
The Non-fiction Feature: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
The Memoir Spot: Alibaba – The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark;
The Product Spot: Internet History Podcast
Alibaba – The House That Jack Ma Built
Technology and entrepreneurship, seemingly always intertwined, are prominently featured in this insider’s look at the founder of the giant e-commerce website, Alibaba.