🤓 Your Reading Habits Revealed + Latest PivotList Round-up
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Last week I ran a straw poll on your reading habits . . . thank you for weighing in! Indeed, it seems pivoters (you!) are high net growth as I say in the book, with over half of you reading more than 20 books a year, far higher than the national average of six:
And much to my surprise, your favorite format is hardcover! Followed by paperback and e-book, with only 14 percent saying audio is their top choice:
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Baby Reindeer on Netflix: It’s based on a true story, and I didn’t realize until after watching the limited seven-episode series that creator Richard Gadd is not only the writer, but also the star of the show. It covers sensitive topics that are hard to watch in moments, but with great skill, honesty, empathy, and nuance.
I was fortunate to attend a screening in person, where he and the actress who plays Martha both said if they never worked again, this role would be enough—they’ll probably never have another one like it.
Both emphasized how they appreciate the messiness and contradictions within each character—no one all good or all bad—and that the story didn’t end tied in a neat bow.
From the Netflix blog, ‘Baby Reindeer’ Creator Richard Gadd on Sharing His Complicated Story With the World:
“I would be lying if I said I was not back exactly where I was all those years ago in 2019 at the Edinburgh Fringe. Fearing the worst. Praying for the best. Hoping that in amongst all the messy, complicated, f'**ked up, themes Baby Reindeer throws at you that people might take notice of its beating heart.”
📚Reading & 🎧 Listening
My dad has been urging me to read Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky’s Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst for years. His newer book (Oct. 2023) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, has some controversial takes (that you can infer from the title alone). Here he is in conversation with
:And here’s my dad’s addendum to Sapolky’s ideas—even if we assume there’s no such thing as free will, there are plenty of variables that still effect our choices and future:
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