Book #209 of 2019: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt This is an interesting topic, and I appreciate the array of studies that author Tom Vanderbilt has assembled for the task, but I find many of his arguments hard to parse, reliant on unjustified …
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Book Review: You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt
Book #7 of 2017: You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt A sprawling but deeply engrossing read on how personal tastes function: why we like the things we like, how tastes intersect with our social identities, and how context-dependent, variable, and ultimately arbitrary those preferences can be. I …
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