Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength (Book Summary) by Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Big up Big Brandon Carter for the recommendation. Notes:– Most common desire was to eat and sleep. Then sex. – Carnegie’s Win Friends and Influence People book spent 8 pages on explaining to people how to have that winning smile. Passive bashing of similar books. – Marshmallow experiment. Successful ones managed to distract themselves for … Read more

Feminism: The Flip Side

Bonus: Why We Need To Stop Telling Women They’re Equal To Men“When did we decide that there is an ideal human being prototype and it’s male? Why is no one bringing up their sons like they’d bring up their daughters?We are not men, we want different things and we can offer different things. Not recognising … Read more

The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi (Summary), An Autobiography

Gandhi Autobiography First of all a lot of people have ‘heard’ about the book or some of the perverse experiments and judged the man on it. One friend even claimed that he started reading the first few pages and threw it away. If you are the kind that is attracted to the perversions and judgements, may … Read more

HOW TO BUILD WICKING BEDS with Terra Perma Design

My notes are very basic compared to Terra Perma’s links below. There is a video below where Charles explains it too. – DEG Wicking Bed Workshop and Team Building Day– Wicking Olive Barrel Pots– Intelligently Designed Urban Foodscapes – Bentonite clay swells 6 times and goes to where the leak is to block the drainage. … Read more

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