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April monthly round-up

Published 17 days ago • 1 min read

April's been quieter than I expected. I only published one book summary—and the two posts I managed to put out were offshoots from that summary. I hope to get back to publishing two summaries in May.

Book summaries

  • Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie — well worth a read if you're concerned about climate change and other environmental problems we face, but sick of the 'doom-and-gloom' narratives we usually hear.

Blog posts

My next summary will be for Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind. It's a thought-provoking book about moral psychology that I found pretty persuasive on my first read, but a lot less so as I'm working my way through a summary of it. So I'll probably publish an accompanying post explaining why.

Thanks and until next time,

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