Critical ThinkingJared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel rewrote how we think about why some societies developed steel and ships while others didn't, and his answer was simple: geography and animals, not the people themselves. The book changed a generation's thinking on…
Critical ThinkingThis devotional works not because the writing is remarkable, but because the format is nearly impossible to fail at. A few minutes a day, a prompt to write to, and a structure that doesn't punish you for missing a week.
Critical ThinkingSteve Coll's Ghost Wars traces twenty-two years of CIA operations in Afghanistan that led directly to 9/11, and his choice to end the book on September 10th makes the argument impossible to ignore. Everything that happened the next morning had…
Critical ThinkingFifty historical disasters arranged by motive instead of chronology: a genuinely clever organizing idea buried in a book full of factual errors and missed opportunities. Read it for the leads, not the history.
Critical ThinkingAmerican Airlines 77 hit the Pentagon on 9/11 with barely a fraction of the attention that fell on New York. This is the book that fills that gap, tracing the building from its groundbreaking in 1941 through the civilians and…
Critical ThinkingJoe Pfeifer was in the North Tower lobby when the first plane hit, running the initial response with no working radios and no way to know his younger brother Kevin was dying in the stairwell above him. This book follows…
Critical ThinkingLynn Spencer's "Touching History" reconstructs 9/11 through the people who managed the crisis in real time: air traffic controllers hunting for planes with dead transponders, fighter pilots launching unarmed to ram airliners, and a new FAA manager ordering 4,500 flights…
Critical ThinkingThere are no good clients. Nobody can do this properly. There is no time. These sound like observations about the world and behave like decisions, because once you believe a thing is unavailable you stop looking, and not looking produces…
Critical ThinkingThe disasters that happen to ordinary people are boring: a power cut in a heatwave, a burst pipe, a job ending. Almost nothing in the preparedness market addresses any of it, because fear sells better than usefulness.
Critical ThinkingSeventy-four thousand years ago a mountain in Sumatra came apart and took the sky with it. Sunlight fell, the cold held for years, and the human population may have dropped to fewer than ten thousand. This is what that winter…
Artificial IntelligenceAn author can now lose a publishing contract because a stranger uploaded their manuscript to a website and got a number back. Here is why those numbers cannot bear the weight being put on them, and what a writer should…
Artificial IntelligenceResearchers trained a model on a meaningless maze and found a positive and negative axis that already existed in the base model. Steering it changes behavior far outside the maze. Here is what that evidence shows, what it does not,…
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