Caste

Isabel Wilkerson's book framing American racism as a caste system.

BookLearning & booksracesociologyhistory

Recommended in 1 thread

‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
nytimes.com · 15 hours ago
A non-American commenter said it made American racism understandable to them.

The Warmth of Other Suns Learning & books
Isabel Wilkerson's history of the Great Migration of Black Americans out of the South.
1 thread
Careless People Learning & books
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
2 threads
Speaker for the Dead ↗Learning & books
An Orson Scott Card novel featuring the AI character Jane.
1 thread
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value Learning & books
A book by William Poundstone on the psychology of how people perceive value and prices.
1 thread
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Learning & books
A 2018 book by Shoshana Zuboff on how tech companies monetise behavioural data.
1 thread
Liberty's Dawn ↗Learning & books
A Yale University Press history of working-class life during the Industrial Revolution.
1 thread
How to Win Friends and Influence People Learning & books
Dale Carnegie's classic book on interpersonal skills.
1 thread
The Man from the Future Learning & books
Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography of John von Neumann.
1 thread

Wikipedia
A free collaborative online encyclopedia.
3 threads
Careless People
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
2 threads
Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
2 threads
Planet Money ↗
NPR's economics podcast.
2 threads
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled ↗
A 2019 Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on von Foerster's hyperbolic population model.
1 thread
A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept ↗
A lecture by John Ousterhout on how rate of learning outweighs starting ability.
1 thread
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn's history of the US told from the perspective of ordinary and marginalised people.
1 thread
A Perfect Vacuum
Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.
1 thread
ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English ↗
A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.
1 thread
Accelerando
A Charles Stross novel about accelerating technological change and autonomous AI agents.
1 thread
Ashton Manual
A guide by Heather Ashton describing slow benzodiazepine tapering schedules, often via diazepam substitution.
1 thread
Atomic Physics for Everyone
An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.
1 thread