Joyce Park Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Finally got a used copy of John Noble Wilford's _The Mapmakers_, last time I looked it was over $100 but I got it for less than $10!

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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple who said the settled opinion of a village is never wrong... and in that sense the group opinion of you and your business, as chewed over by the gossips of Sand Hill Road, is likely to be pretty accurate AT THAT MOMENT. Doesn't mean you're a loser if

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Honestly I think the fastest way to explain teams is Bill Simmons' theory of The Secret in _The Book of Basketball_. https://t.co/ZxUqhvXNly

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@jessicamalonso Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of _Mother Nature_ posits that our primate ancestors needed and wanted a lot of what we now consider "mothering" to be done by others (grandma, aunts, dad) while the mother made critical tradeoffs between quantity and quality. It's called allomothering.

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Now would also be an excellent time for a re-read of Dashiell Hammett's ice-cold novel (really 4 long stories), _Red Harvest_, about a company town called Poisonville by its residents. Funny, I would have thought @Grimezsz would have already read it! https://t.co/B5tPKuLvou

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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple who said the settled opinion of a village is never wrong... and in that sense the group opinion of you and your business, as chewed over by the gossips of Sand Hill Road, is likely to be pretty accurate AT THAT MOMENT. Doesn't mean you're a loser if

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OK so Alito clearly gays above all others. Here he lists some "privacy-based" legal cases and says they're safe because they don't involve taking a life. But he SPECIFICALLY calls out Lawrence and Obergefell as bad law -- and when did gay marriage involve taking a life? https://t.co/JsDjQ1nw79

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@GRobLewis Oddly enough, I actually am a big believer in evolutionary psychology a la Robin Dunbar! But we shouldn't forget that we're all programmed ultimately to like people we can trust. All that in-group garbage is just SHORTHAND, a quick first pass, at who we can trust. But even within

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Now would also be an excellent time for a re-read of Dashiell Hammett's ice-cold novel (really 4 long stories), _Red Harvest_, about a company town called Poisonville by its residents. Funny, I would have thought @Grimezsz would have already read it! https://t.co/B5tPKuLvou

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@Napaaqtuk I've heard good things about _Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science_ by Jessica Hernandez.