Weekly Non-Fiction Reading List 10.19.20

This was a great week for reading. This last week, I finished 7 books, and so many were on topics I’m just now learning about. For a long time, I’ve thought the way we gauge intelligence in school and in life as a whole makes no sense, and I read a few books that dive into how we should rethink what it means to be intelligent. There are also some fantastic books on this list about how we can make this world a little bit better.

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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer

As many problems as there are with the world, I truly think most people want to help others in some capacity or another. But since the rise of sites like GoFundMe, I’ve felt like I was going insane. When I hear of a viral story where people donated 100s of thousands of dollars to a single homeless person, I wonder if anyone realizes how many people that could help. Rather than making a homeless person go from broke to richer than 75% of America, why not focus our efforts and money in a smarter way? And that’s where Peter Singer’s book about…