I am amazed at your high volume of high quality podcasts. You seem to be alwayse very prepared and familiar with your gustes work (also your guests notice that frequently) therfore I am asuming you alwayse read the work of your guests before you have them on your show and it seem obvious that this must be quite an effort considering your high guest volume. I am wondering how many books you read per day and also I would be curious of your top ten list of books. I am just a regular guy from Austria with no academic background and what you are doing, especially all the evolutionary stuff, has quite an impact on my world view, myself and other people. Keep up the good work but don't burn out! You are the best thing I have discovered on the internet for a while. :D
Thank you so much, Michael! Greetings from Portugal! Well, I never read an entire book in a single day, unless it is very tiny, but I would say I should read 2 or 3 books per week, sometimes a bit less, and sometimes a bit more. It's really hard to say what my top 10 is, but I would inclue the following books: - Minds Make Societies, by Pascal Boyer - Behave, by Robert Sapolsky - Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche - Beter Never to Have Been, by David Benatar - The Ape That Understood the Universe, by Steve Stewart-Williams - Human Nature and the Evolution of Society, by Stephen Sanderson - Innate, by Kevin Mitchell - The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt - The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker - The Adapted Mind, by Leda Comides, John Tooby, and Jerome Barkow I have many more, but I will leave it at that.
@@TheDissenterRL I appreciate your lenghty reply. Your recommendations seems very promising. I am already familiar with half of the listings and find them quite interesting as well. I'll check out the other half. Thanks a lot!
sorry to be so off topic but does anyone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account? I was dumb lost my login password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.
@Sergio Lucas thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and im in the hacking process now. I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
They don't seem to understand what blank slate means. It has nothing to do with dogs talking or chimps playing basketball. It's not supposed to apply to learned behavior between species.
Well .. I have just finished reading his book. Frankly (and please pardon me for what I’m gonna say) regardless of the scientific and social field it is discussing, the book was horribly DULL, and nothing paralleled to it dullness except the vague, ineloquent and ultra-complex manner with which it was unfortunately and ambiguously written. Sorry to say that. Anyway, I could easily conclude after reading it : To be an academic is an issue, and to be a ‘Writer’ is a totally different issue. I am not claiming that the author is pseudo-thinker, but I do insist that he should have hired someone else to interpret his ideas and thoughts in a “readable” way at least. It was not a book. It was an undigested burden ! You could clearly sense that the author is afraid to put his ideas directly. He was hiding behind those intricate, complex, open-ended slogans and needless expressions.
His books do read like a university level text book, so can feel dry. But if the subject interests you, like it does me, you will find it fascinating and you will devour his books, as I did
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I am amazed at your high volume of high quality podcasts. You seem to be alwayse very prepared and familiar with your gustes work (also your guests notice that frequently) therfore I am asuming you alwayse read the work of your guests before you have them on your show and it seem obvious that this must be quite an effort considering your high guest volume. I am wondering how many books you read per day and also I would be curious of your top ten list of books. I am just a regular guy from Austria with no academic background and what you are doing, especially all the evolutionary stuff, has quite an impact on my world view, myself and other people. Keep up the good work but don't burn out! You are the best thing I have discovered on the internet for a while. :D
Thank you so much, Michael! Greetings from Portugal!
Well, I never read an entire book in a single day, unless it is very tiny, but I would say I should read 2 or 3 books per week, sometimes a bit less, and sometimes a bit more.
It's really hard to say what my top 10 is, but I would inclue the following books:
- Minds Make Societies, by Pascal Boyer
- Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
- Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Beter Never to Have Been, by David Benatar
- The Ape That Understood the Universe, by Steve Stewart-Williams
- Human Nature and the Evolution of Society, by Stephen Sanderson
- Innate, by Kevin Mitchell
- The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
- The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker
- The Adapted Mind, by Leda Comides, John Tooby, and Jerome Barkow
I have many more, but I will leave it at that.
@@TheDissenterRL I appreciate your lenghty reply. Your recommendations seems very promising. I am already familiar with half of the listings and find them quite interesting as well. I'll check out the other half. Thanks a lot!
Endlessly fascinating....
Any interview that discusses James Scott is a good interview.
Beginning to binge reading Boyers work... thank you for this.
sorry to be so off topic but does anyone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account?
I was dumb lost my login password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.
@Isaac Marcellus Instablaster :)
@Sergio Lucas thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and im in the hacking process now.
I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Sergio Lucas It worked and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thanks so much, you saved my account :D
@Isaac Marcellus Happy to help :D
Lovely interview
I reviewed Minds Make Sorties, to appear in the first issue of Anthropologica 2020
They don't seem to understand what blank slate means. It has nothing to do with dogs talking or chimps playing basketball. It's not supposed to apply to learned behavior between species.
Well .. I have just finished reading his book.
Frankly (and please pardon me for what I’m gonna say) regardless of the scientific and social field it is discussing, the book was horribly DULL, and nothing paralleled to it dullness except the vague, ineloquent and ultra-complex manner with which it was unfortunately and ambiguously written.
Sorry to say that. Anyway, I could easily conclude after reading it : To be an academic is an issue, and to be a ‘Writer’ is a totally different issue.
I am not claiming that the author is pseudo-thinker, but I do insist that he should have hired someone else to interpret his ideas and thoughts in a “readable” way at least.
It was not a book. It was an undigested burden !
You could clearly sense that the author is afraid to put his ideas directly. He was hiding behind those intricate, complex, open-ended slogans and needless expressions.
His books do read like a university level text book, so can feel dry. But if the subject interests you, like it does me, you will find it fascinating and you will devour his books, as I did