Scott Young Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I'm reading Good Work if You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia. (https://t.co/o0rhxJeMpL) No plans for a PhD, but I love this genre of writing. A frank look at what the career path is actually like, backed by stats. Why doesn't every profession have such a book?

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After Heidegger, I'm now working through Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. The idea that we have minds separate from bodies, which contain feels, thoughts and beliefs, is, according to Rorty, a modern invention. https://t.co/sr6HAhnokP

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New Article: Cultural Literacy: Does Knowledge Need to Be Deep to Be Useful? https://t.co/ZGBIUpTOaO This week I'm discussing the book "Cultural Literacy" by E.D. Hirsch.

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Life of Focus is now open! My 3-month course designed to help you achieve greater depth in work and life is open for a new session. I teach the course with Cal Newport, author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. Link to page: https://t.co/BZTHyU1bjt

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New Post: Book Review — Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs https://t.co/fzuSR97JUl This week I'm reviewing the book "Pedigree" by Lauren Rivera.

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Book Recommendation: A World Without Email https://t.co/O5FuoJ2DA9 In this article, I'm talking about Cal Newport's new book and why I recommend it.

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New Article: How does understanding work? A look at the construction-integration model of comprehension https://t.co/PNFSlNYdrr How do we learn things? This week I'm looking at Walter Kintsch’s Construction-Integration (CI) theory.

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Even just taking classes with the *expectation* of homework seems to make a difference. Reading James Gleick's Chaos, I'm not sure I would have *really* understood almost anything he was describing if not for @stevenstrogatz's course: https://t.co/ziVYaZNrf2

Scott Young

Life of Focus is now open! My 3-month course designed to help you achieve greater depth in work and life is open for a new session. I teach the course with Cal Newport, author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. Link to page: https://t.co/BZTHyU1bjt

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New Article: Book Recommendation: Uncommon Sense Teaching https://t.co/lDXtC3woKZ In this article, I'm discussing Barabara Oakley's upcoming book "Uncommon Sense Teaching" and why I highly recommend it.