Weekend Reading

Writing worth reading - 7th/8th May 2022

• The Former Chancellor Who Became Putin’s Man in Germany by Katrin Bennhold

  • “When this war is over,” Mr. Schröder said, “we will have to go back to dealing with Russia...”

• Is reality a hallucination? The neuroscientist Anil Seth thinks so by Sophie McBain

  • “...which can be used to reduce activity in different parts of the brain. “Years ago, when we first got them, we had the whole idea that consciousness depended on the frontal and parietal network, so we just tried to shut the whole thing down using TMS on each other,” he said. “It didn’t work,” he added, replacing it with a shrug.”

• The Rise and Fall of the Management Visionary Behind Zappos by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre

  • “I’m going to start a new country,” he proclaimed. He had stopped sleeping, he added, because he had “hacked” sleep and his body no longer needed it. Jewel immediately realized that Mr. Hsieh’s new plan to achieve world peace wasn’t just impossible... it was the manic vision of a person who urgently needed help.”