A review by me_haugen
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E.H. Smith

5.0

Read this one while I was trying to calm down from the coffee I just drank. I was at my brother's failing coffeeshop business trying out new coffee prototypes. I guess initially, he was trying to lean into this whole "hydration trend" everyone is all into now and adding extra water to his coffee for all the people who love to drink a whole bunch of water and hoping maybe people would even order whole big bottles of his coffee water and pay him a whole bunch. of money. The whole "drink more water" thing is so stupid to me, to be honest. Our bodies are mostly water, why are we so obsessed with getting more? What about eating a bunch more meat and bones if we barely have any of that? Or eyeballs, that makes up a tiny part of your body. Anyway these hydration-obsessed people actually revealed their hypocrisy cause they didn't like the watery coffee and said some pretty mean stuff about my brother's shop -- mostly on yelp and stuff but sometimes to his face too. Anyway, he took the feedback and so he has no more watery coffee but now he's trying out his "oops all beans" coffee which is like a paste basically and that stuff was what messed me up. This book was good.