Casey

Interesting concept, bland story

Revisado: 08-04-16

The concept of a person with the special ability to hold an object and know its history is fascinating. However that was not fully explored in this story. This could have been a decent short story, not a full length novel.

Also I found the voice performance a bit irritating at times.

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Introduction to a paradigm

Revisado: 02-24-16

Sets out to describe a way of thinking about how decisions are influenced by norms. It emphasises in particular how norms or standards sit on a network can be more important to their propagation and longevity than their intrinsic value. There are a number of thorough examples and the analysis is qualitative, and (mostly) modest in what it tries to convince the reader. I feel a little conflicted in that it is refreshing for a book not to overreach much in the scope of the theory, but at the same time leave wanting for a deeper application of network theory to the propagation of politics and technical standards. The implications toward policy at the end leave with what felt to me like a desperate faith in lawmaking because a more cynical view of our ability to intentionally and effectively control network dynamics would have been too nihilistic to conclude with. Overall it was a consistently interesting Introduction to a paradigm that hopefully can be further developed going forward.

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Very good at what it is

Revisado: 01-20-16

Not just an audio book, but an audio presentation that feels more natural than someone reading from a book. This is more like a podcast feel. Though not necessarily the fault of the author, I was expecting more neurobiology and less social science. Obviously both were present and to be expected, but the neurobiology evidence was used - sometimes seemingly ad hoc, to rationalize the social science theories. I was expecting the limbic system to be discussed more, the brains of other social animals, eeg studies etc. Though for what it is, a conversation about mindfulness, and integrating the mind with the world around it, it succeeds at that.

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