Weekly Reads

Below is everything I’ve read this past week (since Saturday). The books may have been started in previous weeks, but were finished in the previous five days. Most of my reading relates to education for sustainable development (Edu21).

My top picks are in bolded, red text.
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Books

1. Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job - 144 pages
2. In Defense of a Liberal Education - 204 pages

Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

1. A Personal Update: Depression Four Months Later - my weekly blog article
2. What a Stanford Dean Says Parents are Doing That’s Ruining Their Kids
3. Does varying rainfall make people collectivists?
4. Let’s think again about Dodd-Frank
5. Marshall & Tucker for The Hill: Congress should get to work on overtime
6. Egalitarianism versus Online Education
7. Robert Shiller on Open Borders
8. The Industrialization of Traffic
9. The Emergence of Emergent Curriculum
10. What makes a great teacher
11. Why You Really Must Get Behind Hillary, Now
12. Two American Dreams: how a dumbed-down nation lost sight of a great idea
13. On Punishment for Bullying — and Punishment as Bullying
14. How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative
15. When a Crackpot Runs for President
16. Overtime with Bill Maher | September 16, 2016 (HBO) - video
17. Kerry Washington Knows Spin When She Sees It | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - video
18. Waking Up With Sam Harris #45 - Ask Me Anything 5
    1. In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about how 9/11 changed his life, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, free will, why he podcasts, Milo and the alt-Right, identity politics, Clinton vs. Trump, vegetarianism, and the Hannibal Buress episode.
19. Peter Zeihan - video
20. Understanding Comorbid Depression and Anxiety
21. Teacher Holds An Experiment With Students To Illustrate Gender Gap In Congress - video
22. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Robot Grabs Gun from Suspect - Good follow up to article immediately below.
23. It matters where robots live, robot nationalism next to come?
24. Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
    1. “Therefore, this experimental study provides support for the causal claim that spending money on others leads to higher happiness than spending money on oneself. Moreover, these results suggest that the spending amount need not be large to facilitate positive hedonic gains, as prosocial purchases made with as little as five dollars were sufficient to boost happiness levels.”
    2. “While offering donors monetary or material incentives for giving may undermine generosity in the long-term, our preliminary research suggests that advertising the emotional benefits of prosocial behavior may leave these benefits intact and might even encourage individuals to give more.”
25. Here’s What Happens When You Give $1,000 to Someone in Extreme Poverty
    1. 97% goes to immediate needs and 3% to vices (same as general population).
26. How to Live Well
27. Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities
    1. Socially optimal rates are between 50-83% depending on labor behavior elasticities (i.e. people entering/leaving work force, avoiding taxes, or bargaining for new compensation packages).
28. Analysis of Donald Trump's Tax Plan
29. Trump, Trade and Workers - Good to read after Trump’s speech below.
30. Why Are The Media Objectively Pro-Trump?
31. Donald Trump’s full economic speech - video