Bookish Diversions: Reading as Help for Living
Making Decisions, Novels as Practice, Theaters for Self-Reflection, Dark Books, Measuring ‘Narrativeness,’ More
¶ Decisions, decisions! Steven Johnson’s 2018 book Farsighted presents a method for processing decisions—not the easy kind (cherry pie or apple?) but the tough, Russ Roberts–y, wild kind, with all the considerations and contingencies that spool out like thirty-seven balls of yarn rolling downhill. Do I:
marry Sally?
put Dad in the nursing home?
change a policy that affects my cowor…
