Better With Books - episode 21 - Be a Curator, Not a Critic


There's so much stuff out there. How do we figure out which of it is worth our time and which is not? Take a listen and find out.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Left Hand of Darkness - spoiler review

I didn’t like The Left Hand of Darkness. I wish I did. I badly wanted to. But when I compare the fascinating sci-fi concepts and the cool setting (pun intended) to the plot, the plot doesn’t live up to the potential. I expected Le Guin to blow me away with a riveting story, but instead I got political intrigue and a dull and lengthy escape across a glacier. Here’s the premise: In the far future there is a collection of planets that form an alliance called The Hundred Worlds. A man names Genly travels from one of these worlds to a cold, ice-covered planet named Winter that isn’t part of the alliance. His job is to convince the inhabitants of Winter to join The Hundred Worlds, but the inhabitants are very skeptical and old fashioned. They’ve never had a visitor come from space before, and they don’t even really believe that Genly came from space at all… except that Genly, unlike everyone else on Winter, is male, a person who always displays the physical characteristics of a man. This blo...
Read more

How to Optimize Free Time

You’re in line at the store. You’re in the car waiting for your date to come out. You’re walking across campus between classes. What do you do in these moments of free time? Free time is check-your-phone time. You open emails, reply to a couple texts, update your apps or scroll through Instagram. That’s great. But here’s what’s not great: Taking up time that is not free time and doing the same thing. I realized something recently. I check Instagram once in the morning, right after I wake up, and once at night, before getting to bed. In some ways, this is how I force myself to get out of bed in the morning and into bed at night, but it’s also a waste of time. Because what happens when I encounter a pice of free time? I check Instagram! Instead of spending a block of ten minutes in the morning on social media, I could spread it out over the little moments of nothingness that pop up during my day. Then I could use the extra ten minutes in the morning for reading or exercising! ...
Read more

Top 10 Best Podcasts (in no particular order)

Here’s a list of the top 10 podcasts that make up a majority of my podcast-listening time, in no particular order. . .  Hello Internet To this show I owe my entire addiction to podcasts. Whether you know CGP Grey and Brady Haran or not (and I can’t tell you what an awful person you are if you don’t) this show is worth listening to, beginning to end. It’s entertaining and funny, and you’re bound to learn new things. My favorite aspect of the show is how, as you listen, you’ll invariably begin to take a side. Are you on the Haran side or the Grey side? More logical or more gut-led? More of a robot or caveman? And the culture around this show is incredible. I don’t think there’s ever been anything like it for any podcast ever. Radiolab 100% of the episodes turn out to be interesting and important. I don’t believe I’ve ever skipped an episode because of the content. This show is a classic. And the editing is amazing, for those of you who are interested in doing your o...
Read more