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My Racist Introduction

By Ibram X Kendi

"After taking this grueling journey to the dirt road of antiracism, humanity can come upon the clearing of a potential future: an antiracist world in all its imperfect beauty. It can become real if we focus on power instead of people, if we focus on changing policy instead of groups of people. It’s possible if we overcome our cynicism about the permanence of racism."

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Books to Watch | June 2, 2020

By Porchlight

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One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems

By Porchlight

In the spirit of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, and joining the ranks of works by Bryan Stevenson, Matthew Desmond, Abraham Verghese and Oliver Sacks, the inspiring story of a young American neurologist's struggle to make a difference in Haiti by treating one patient at a time--a story of social justice, clashing cultures, and what it means to treat strangers as members of our family.

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May 2020 Cookbook Roundup

Book Review by Blyth Meier

“Cooking in” is the new “going out,” so let’s take a look at the new cookbooks that were giving life to our kitchen routines in May.

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7 “Primitive” Qualities for Finding Meaning in Your Work

By Marco Greenberg

This radical work-life imbalance makes it more urgent than ever that our work truly give us meaning. It should focus the mind on a critical question: is our work fulfilling?

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Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life

By Porchlight

Put your values first and focus on what matters most.

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Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely

By Porchlight

An expert on the psychology of decision making at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business examines the importance of being confident, arguing that confidence is good, but overconfidence can hinder growth.

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Books to Watch | May 26, 2020

By Porchlight

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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Book Review by Porchlight

John Maynard Keynes stared down two world wars and the Great Depression, and in response offered hope and optimism to the world through sound economic policy.

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Trauma Stewardship

By Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk

Trauma always creates a ripple effect, the same as when someone throws a stone into a still pond. The initial impact creates repercussions that expand almost infinitely, reaching and having an effect on many people who didn’t experience the blows firsthand. The shockwaves soon move beyond individual caregivers to influence the organizations and systems in which we work and, ultimately, the society as a whole. The harms of trauma exposure response radiate in this way, but so do the benefits of trauma stewardship.