https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

“The Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice runs thus:<br /> At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars.<br /> Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet.<br /> Without any special rancour, Vimes stretched this theory to explain why Sybil Ramkin lived twice as comfortably as he did by spending about half as much every month.”<br /> ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms (1993)

https://www.esinclai.com/

Wanted to join Dan Allosso Book Club at Graeber's Debt.

Doleac, Jennifer. “New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime.” Brookings (blog), June 1, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/.

A brief meta analysis of the evidence provided by three different studies on the effects of lead exposure to children and the increased incidence of their potential adult criminal behavior.

Compare this with the levels of insanity induced in TEL production discussed in https://doi.org/10.1179/oeh.2005.11.4.384 (or alternately at https://environmentalhistory.org/about/ethyl-leaded-gasoline/) via https://hypothes.is/a/7MBWvHW7Ee6a8dvvDy9Aqw

Kovarik, William. “Ethyl-Leaded Gasoline: How a Classic Occupational Disease Became an International Public Health Disaster.” International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 11, no. 4 (2005): 384–97. https://doi.org/10.1179/oeh.2005.11.4.384.

Samizdat version: https://environmentalhistory.org/about/ethyl-leaded-gasoline/

Environmental Impact of WW1 by NHC Education Programs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lucJElPVYOk

I've come to think that the purpose of part 1 of the book is part rhetorical device (ethos). David Lipsky is using it to build up some credibility as a writer. He's covering topics that many are likely somewhat knowledgeable about, but is adding some additional color, details, and information which most surely don't know. This has the effect of showing the depths to which he's researched the topics to be able to weave them into such a story.

This will tend to pay off as he begins addressing the potentially more contentious (for some) material in the climate crisis section.

https://www.theparrotandtheigloo.com/

The endnotes missing from the book.

Boroditsky, Lera. How Language Shapes the Way We Think. Streaming Video. TED | TEDWomen 2017, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

https://www.opencampusmedia.org/2023/09/12/the-inspiration-for-californias-grand-experiment-at-community-colleges-wisconsin/

Via Nate Maertens

https://matthew-van-der-hoorn.notion.site/matthew-van-der-hoorn/Book-Reading-bc745728387b4369b5b63739292c9ce7

van der Hoorn's suggestions for reading

aka:<br /> - Mr. Hoorn (Asp. Learning Expert) - Odd-Job_Man https://www.reddit.com/user/Odd-Job_Man/ - Mind Academy (w/ Discord channel) - Hypothes.is account: https://hypothes.is/users/MrHoornTheScholar

https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Notes-Write-Allosso-ebook/dp/B0B7FSQP35/

Dan Allosso purchased a 30 drawer card catalog (three sections of 5 x 2 without any base) for $300 in 2022.

It's pictured on the cover of his book "How to Make Notes and Write".

Purchased at $10 per drawer.<br /> local sale

Price mentioned at the end of Dan Allosso Book Club 2023-09-16.

Book covers of this prominently featured the names of the authors as:

Shaw | Freud

Which reads as "shaw and freud" or by association the German world schadenfreude.

Gould, Jessica. “Teachers College, Columbia U. Dissolves Program behind Literacy Curriculum Used in NYC Public Schools.” Gothamist, September 8, 2023. https://gothamist.com/news/columbia-university-dissolves-program-behind-literacy-curriculum-used-in-nyc-public-schools.

The Teachers College of Columbia University has shut down the Lucy Calkins Units of Study literacy program.

Missing from the story is more emphasis on not only the social costs, which they touch on, but the tremendous financial (sunk) cost to the system by not only adopting it but enriching Calkins and the institution (in a position of trust) which benefitted from having sold it.

link to: https://hypothes.is/a/eicbpgSKEe6vc0fPdIm05w

Ahrens, Sönke. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers. Create Space, 2017.

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And destroy mining equipment in the video - amazed an ad agency would let that through

https://www.uclaextension.edu/writing-journalism/screenwriting/course/supercharge-your-writing-efforts-script-x-4639e

Nick Milo is offering a remote digital note taking and writing course for $485 for UCLA Extension in late summer 2023.

Nick Milodragovich

James Patterson's Kentucky fried books

Link to: - Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain: https://hypothes.is/a/8qMVggeyEe6f7G9Gd5OrNw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_U._S._Grant

Early precursor to the sort of publishing and marketing work of James Patterson?

https://www.reddit.com/user/Paddy48ob/

• signed a post as "Pat (OBC)" obstensibly for Obsidian Book Club via https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/13m2j5b/comment/jkzhedk/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

• also mentions being a 20 year user of TheBrain at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/101st9c/comment/j2qfh5d/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

An Inside Look into Obsidian Book Club

Several nice mentions of me throughout...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeptical_Environmentalist

tangentially mentioned in the Dan Allosso Book Club 2023-04-29

Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017.

Labour Exchange - Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Britannica 1911

Graeber, David. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

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Blair, Ann M. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. Yale University Press, 2010, https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300165395/too-much-know.

ISBN: 978-0-300-11251-1 (cloth) Library of Congress Control Number: 2010024663

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Paul, Annie Murphy. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021, https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/The-Extended-Mind/9780544947580.

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Graeber, David & Wengrow, David. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, McClelland & Stewart, 2021.

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Scheper, Scott. Antinet Zettelkasten: A Knowledge System That Will Turn You Into a Prolific Reader, Researcher and Writer. Greenlamp, LLC, 2022.

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Rank, Mark Robert, Lawrence M. Eppard, and Heather E. Bullock. Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Reading as part of Dan Allosso's Book Club

Mostly finished last week, though I managed to miss the last book club meeting for family reasons, but finished out the last few pages tonight.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEycdHEQrco

Shared by Curt McNamara with the Trimtab Book Club

We are meeting Siobhan Roberts in our Trimtab Book Club today.

The Hidden History of the Geodesic Dome - Part 3: The Teamwork of Walter Gropius

Understanding one’s limitations leads to a recognition of the power of relationships in an interconnected and interdependent world.

The Hidden History of the Geodesic Dome - Part 3: The Teamwork of Walter Gropius

Understanding one’s limitations leads to a recognition of the power of relationships in an interconnected and interdependent world.

Alicia was the only Boole sister to inherit the mathematical career of her parents, although her mother Mary Everest Boole had brought up all of her five children from an early age 'to acquaint them with the flow of geometry' by projecting shapes onto paper, hanging pendulums etc. She was first exposed to geometric models by her brother-in-law Charles Howard Hinton when she was 17, and developed the ability to visualise in a fourth dimension. She found that there were exactly six regular polytopes in four dimensions and that they are bounded by 5, 16 or 600 tetrahedra, 8 cubes, 24 octahedra or 120 dodecahedra.

Team Syntegrity

Stafford Beer created Team Syntegrity as a methodology for social interaction that predisposes participants towards shared agreement among varied and sometimes conflicting interests, without compromising the legitimate claims and integrity of those interests. This paper outlines the methodology and the underlying philosophy, describing several applications in a variety of countries and contexts, indicating why such an approach causes us to re-think more traditional approaches to group decision processes, and relating Team Syntegrity to other systems approaches.

Shared by Kirby Urner in the Trimtab Book Club

Kirby Urner’s site on Synergetics

Lionel Wolberger, member of the Trimtab Book Club.

Complexity Weekend

Daniel Friedman, a member of the Trimtab Book Club, is inviting people to be facilitators in Complexity Weekend.

The next book for the Trimtab Book Club.

Shared by Curt McNamara with the Trimtab Book Club.

I've been wanting to read Zinn, so perhaps this is a good place to follow along? A sort of pseudo book club perhaps?

It's interesting to see Dan struggle with an obvious listicle article in Forbes as an authoritative source. This example is a great indicator that Forbes online has created far too much of a content farm to be taken seriously anymore. From what I've seen of it over the past several years it's followed the business model of The Huffington Post before Huffington sold it and cashed out. My supposition is that Forbes is providing a platform for people to get reach and isn't actually paying those writers to create their content.

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States

• Covering a chapter a week
• companion edition, Voices of People's History of United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnov
• Erik Foner's article about Zinn
• Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism by E. P. Thompson *
• cultural theorist Raymond Williams' idea of resources of hope
  • Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism by Raymond Williams
• An Indigenous People's History of the United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnYt9NOUAw

I feel like I may have just stumbled on a back alley book club on design.

It's digital books+Hypothes.is+Fight Club...

The rules of Back Alley Book Club:

1. We don't talk about Back Alley Book Club.
2. We don't talk about Back Alley Book Club.

...

1. If this is your first night at Back Alley Book Club, you have to annotate.

If you are interested in reading Classic books you can join r/ClassicsBookClub on reddit where we will be hosting groups reads and discussions.

To me this is the heart of it, especially in so far as this use case overlaps with the educational/classroom one.