10/25/2020

All Adults Here by Emma Straub

Good but forgettable

The Watchman's Rattle: A New Way to Understand Complexity, Collapse, and Correction by Rebecca D. Costa

Seriously misguided and overly simplistic. Many of the examples she uses to prove her points demonstrate that she hasn’t paid attention —> She went on a tirade about Oprah and weight loss and accused Oprah of not realizing she was part of a systemic issue versus individualistic thinking. It seems like she keeps forgetting that people still have to cope with problems even if those problems are systemic. She does the same thing with nonprofits.

Recommended by a friend —> who later ‘fessed up to having been on heavy painkillers when he read this.