{"id":3482,"date":"2021-11-07T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2021-11-07T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:54:42","slug":"read-meaty-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3482","title":{"rendered":"Read &#8220;meaty&#8221; books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I read a book that I can&#8217;t describe with any other adjective than &#8220;meaty&#8221;. They&#8217;re large, complex and tough to get through. I read them 5-10 pages at a time. They are slow reads (and sometimes I don&#8217;t finish them) but they either change my perspective in multiple ways or introduce me to an entirely new perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674430006\">Capital in the 21st Century<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PikettyLeMonde\">Thomas Piketty<\/a>, which changed my thinking on how capital accumulates and what that means for societies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesetruthsbook.com\/\">These Truths<\/a> by Jill Lepore was a re-examination of the history of the USA from perspectives I hadn&#8217;t considered.<\/li>\n<li>The Case for Mars by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robert_zubrin\">Robert Zubrin<\/a> is a book examining the real world possibilities for space colonization.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/martinfowler.com\/books\/refactoring.html\">Refactoring<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/martinfowler.com\/\">Martin Fowler<\/a> exploded my ideas about how to modify software and gave me a new vocabulary too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest book that I&#8217;ve read in this category is <a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300151176\/comanche-empire\">The Comanche Empire<\/a> by Pekka H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen. This book has totally reworked my understanding of native tribes, political economy of the southwest in the 1700s-1800s, US western expansion, the wealth of Texas, social organization and more.<\/p>\n<p>While it is fun to read books that don&#8217;t challenge my thinking, it is also good to read these &#8220;meaty&#8221; books periodically as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I read a book that I can&#8217;t describe with any other adjective than &#8220;meaty&#8221;. They&#8217;re large, complex and tough to get through. I read them 5-10 pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}