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The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now by Hilke Schellmann

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 47%.

This book calls everything "AI" and just doesn't understand it. An applicant tracking system (ATS) is not AI, and calling it AI weakens this book's entire premise. I got about halfway through and just got worn down.

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant

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hopeful informative fast-paced

4.0

Death's End by Cixin Liu

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

at moments it was so hard to watch the protagonist make the worst choice every time but, to the books credit I felt I knew her by the end. I hated her, but I knew her.

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

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informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed the very skeptical approach this book takes towards the concept of the anti-parking thought process. The storytelling and the factual recounting of facts are unmatched, and although it doesn't spend too much time on the counter perspectives (I think that it is probably assuming that the reader can supply that themselves) it does a good job talking about the range of opinions.

The only weak point of the book is that it spends far too much time discussing the parking meter issues in Chigaco and the mess that it is and was.

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.

I had heard that Sowell was a good academic as a left-leaning person to learn more about the right. This was not the case; I grew worn out with his obviously false equivalency between things. It wasn't for me, and I went back to Cass Sunstein for a better perspective of the right.

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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slow-paced