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Summarized books, films, and lectures for your abridged reading pleasure. Get the main idea before you read or in order to find that perfect, sourced quotation. Table of Contents at this link: https://medium.com/thrice-removed/contents-5f9471edfc5c
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Developing the Capacity for Rational Choices
Developing the Capacity for Rational Choices
“As the world falls around us, how must we brave its cruelties?” — Furiosa
Marie Snyder
Dec 3
Stoic Environmentalism
Stoic Environmentalism
I dipped my toe into Stoic Week again this year. I’ve done it before a decade ago, and even went to StoicCon once! I was hoping to find the…
Marie Snyder
Nov 4
On Burnout: “Can” is the New “Should”
On Burnout: “Can” is the New “Should”
I started reading about burnout when I walked away from teaching earlier than expected. Suddenly, I couldn’t bring myself to open that door…
Marie Snyder
Oct 6
Embracing Fallibility
Embracing Fallibility
Many of us live in a punitive, carceral type of society that can make it difficult to have compassion for ourselves or others. It’s an era…
Marie Snyder
Aug 10
Chomsky’s Interviews
Chomsky’s Interviews
A collection of my notes from films and interviews from Ralph Nader and Yanis Vanoufakis to Wallace Shawn and Contrapoints!
Marie Snyder
Jul 1
Sharing the Art of Helping
Sharing the Art of Helping
“A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And…
Marie Snyder
Jul 1
A Buddhist Perspective on Addiction: Nothing is Vital
A Buddhist Perspective on Addiction: Nothing is Vital
Now that the hangover from New Year’s Eve is abating for many, and we might be freshly open to some self-improvement, consider a Buddhist…
Marie Snyder
Apr 23
End of Exploitation?
End of Exploitation?
In the West, it feels like we have never lived outside of a system of pseudo-feudalism, a time without peasantry, slavery, or the working…
Marie Snyder
Apr 22
A Fruitful Exploration of the Core
A Fruitful Exploration of the Core
Maybe there are seeds of potential deep within ourselves, but maybe there’s nothing there but a collection of signals. Regardless the…
Marie Snyder
Mar 26
On Identity: Erikson, Freud, and Sartre
On Identity: Erikson, Freud, and Sartre
I recently listened to a podcast of Dr. Louis Cozolino, a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, discussing what he would teach if he were…
Marie Snyder
Mar 25
Changing Perceptions of Autism
Changing Perceptions of Autism
There are a few ideas I’ve seen floating around on social media about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) having no Theory of Mind…
Marie Snyder
Feb 26
On Hearing Others
On Hearing Others
Louis Cozolino’s beautifully written book on neuroscience has an explanation near the end about our necessary interconnectedness.
Marie Snyder
Jan 31
Yalom’s Gift
Yalom’s Gift
I recently binge-watched all of Group, a show inspired by a novel by Irvin Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure. So I revisited Yalom’s non-fiction…
Marie Snyder
Jan 29
Can a Slingshot Down This Goliath?
Can a Slingshot Down This Goliath?
I read Andreas Malm’s book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline a few months ago, then watched the movie, and then was reminded of it all again by…
Marie Snyder
Jan 7
Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence
Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ, was originally published in 1995 but there’s a more recently…
Marie Snyder
Nov 6, 2023
On Community
On Community
Can simple actions create and maintain community?
Marie Snyder
Oct 23, 2023
On Limited Government
On Limited Government
Not a summary of one book, but of the overall trajectory of limited capitalism.
Marie Snyder
Oct 3, 2023
A Somatic Therapy Approach to Anti-Racism
A Somatic Therapy Approach to Anti-Racism
Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands came highly recommended for good reason. It can improve how we interact.
Marie Snyder
Aug 21, 2023
Where is My Mind? On Freud and Neuropsychology
Where is My Mind? On Freud and Neuropsychology
Freud got some things right, and this isn’t a post to slam him. But he understood the whole concept of the unconscious mind upside-down…
Marie Snyder
Aug 13, 2023
Maté: Part Depth Psychology, but Part Questionable Quick Fix
Maté: Part Depth Psychology, but Part Questionable Quick Fix
He received the Order of Canada, profoundly helped many people with addiction on the streets of Vancouver, and is much loved and admired…
Marie Snyder
Jul 29, 2023
Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
This is a classic text on psychoanalysis as well as the on ways to find the will to survive the most tragic circumstances.
Marie Snyder
Jun 26, 2023
Charles Taylor on the Crises of Democracy
Charles Taylor on the Crises of Democracy
A lecture as part of the Civid Freedom in an Age of Diversity program.
Marie Snyder
Jul 16, 2022
Slee’s No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart
On the psychological forces that influence our decisions.
Marie Snyder
Jul 16, 2022
Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life
Why we continue to waste time, and how to stop!
Marie Snyder
Jul 16, 2022
John Ralston Saul’s A Fair Country
John Ralston Saul’s A Fair Country
How Canada’s origins continue to set us apart today.
Marie Snyder
Jul 16, 2022
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