Steve Yastrow

Most important read in ages

Revisado: 10-15-24

In his usual fashion, Harari helps us understand important topics within the context of human history. If you hear a friend opining about AI and they haven’t read this book, assume they are just making stuff up. This will help you understand.

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Great overview

Revisado: 04-06-24

I listened to this after hearing Yashsa Mounk’s The Identity Trap, and this framed the antisemitism problem well in light of general identity politics. Important topic.

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Such an important book

Revisado: 03-27-24

While demonstrating the positive aspects of certain focuses on identity, this book clearly shows the dangers when these ideologies go too far. Very well done.

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Interesting story of mammalian evolution

Revisado: 02-14-24

Well worth it … shows our lineage and how we, and other mammals, came to be.

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A powerful, poetic look at chronic disease

Revisado: 11-15-23

As someone who has two family members with chronic autoimmune diseases, this book helped me better understand their situations. Meghan O’Rourke chronicles her journey through her long-undiagnosed multiplicity of symptoms, continually using each step of her story to shed light on the history of chronic disease and our medical system’s challenges in dealing with complexities it can’t address with clear fixes. Highly recommended.

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EVERYONE should read/listen to this

Revisado: 09-19-23

What an amazing, eye-opening book. The author makes it so clear why people think the way they do, how we can understand other people better, and how this all makes sense in terms of human evolution. Please check this book out, especially as we enter a heightened political season.

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Very important

Revisado: 07-13-23

Not the easiest book to listen to, but well worth it. Don’t be intimidated by the large numbers used throughout - and if you don’t have a good sense of what “orders of magnitude” means take 7 minutes and listen to the appendix first. The book will help you have a better perspective on what’s really going on in the world, and why so much of what we hear (and think) is baseless fallacy. A good kind of humbling.

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Fabulous, insightful, practical book

Revisado: 05-31-23

This book is really good. It give you clear, action-oriented insight to not only live longer, but better. My only small, tiny issues were this sometimes he says the title or first word of a new section softly, and it’s hard to hear, but always discernible through context. And I could have done without him self-deprecating admissions of his recent emotional health issues in the last section, which sort of damage his credibility as an expert, but I look beyond those two issues and heartily recommend this book. I actually bought a hard copy just for reference, and have recommended it to many other people.

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That was fun

Revisado: 02-16-23

A crazy, funny, irreverent sci-fi-“lite” romp that imagines that JFK was not killed in Dallas, remained president, went all in on space travel, and …. You’ll have to listen.

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Such an insightful, important book

Revisado: 02-11-23

Any Jew, especially those in Israel or America, will gain a lot by reading this insightful book. Gordis deeply understands, and articulately communicates, the interdependencies between Israel and American Jewry, and demonstrates the challenges and vulnerabilities that exist. Really well done. My only problem was with the narrator - and it should not be enough to discourage anyone from listening to the books. His voice is nice and he has good delivery, but he mispronounces a lot of Hebrew words, and made a number of silly mistakes: in describing Entebbe he said an “Air Force plane” instead of an “Air France” plane; he once called Herzl “Hershel;” and in talking about how Gordis’s brother smuggled a transistor radio into Yom Kippur services in 1973 when the war broke out, and could then get news to everyone in the synagogue, the narrator read "most valuable player" as "most valuable prayer." Gordis is so good on his podcast - too bad he didn't read this book. But don't let that discourage you. 99% of the time the narrator is fine and 100% of the time Gordis is excellent.

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