HeyJaredUncommontaries
Book reviews, and occasional essays/pontifications about the weirdness of being human.
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Moral Ambition (opens the original)
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Being Mortal (opens the original)
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Just finished reading Dr. Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. My doctor recommended it – a fact into which you must not read too much. Gawande is a surgeon and former Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID. (RIP, USAID.) EDIT: My friend Frank rightly points out that this is a stingy intro to Dr. Gawande for anyone who is unfamiliar with his previous work, which is consequential and world-spanning. Frank helpfully provided Dr. Gawande’s Wiki link.<a class="image-
Life Face to Face (opens the original)
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A while back I read How to Break Up with Your Phone. Excellent book: empathetic, well-written and -organized. I created a recurring note in my calendar, inquiring how the break-up with devices (not just the phone) was going. It hasn’t gone well.**********<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KwNq!,f_auto,q_auto
NOT Like the Brazen Giant (opens the original)
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On Data Centers and AI (opens the original)
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