It would be great if other rationalists who have an account would leave links to their account here, so we can follow each other and learn from each other.
Following multiple rationalists means that for many books that are of interests to us we can easily get multiple good opinions.
I have historically had a hard time using goodreads for recommendations. It seems that everyone has at least 100 books or so with 5 stars, which strikes me as far too much, I feel like I want a category in goodreads that’s beyond 5 stars, or something like that. Interested in tips from other people on how to make use of goodreads as a recommendation tool.
I spent a number of my teenage years aggregating online recommendations I found into lists. If you’re looking for my ‘extra category that’s beyond five stars’ I made a “worldview Shaping list’ with 11 books.
The advantage of goodread is that if you have enough friends with decent judgement you can get opinion from multiple friends. For me it’s a matter of having views from multiple people.
Whenever I get any book recommendation and think about whether or not to engage more with the book I go to goodread to see what friends have to say about the book.
I haven’t had much success using goodreads as a recommendation tool. All of the best book recommendations I’ve gotten I got in person. (I wish I was better at using goodreads to recommend things to other people but for some reason I hate using it.)
When it comes to book recommendations Goodreads is great. My GoodReads account is https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17754535-christian-kleineidam and a bunch of other rationalists also have accounts.
It would be great if other rationalists who have an account would leave links to their account here, so we can follow each other and learn from each other.
Following multiple rationalists means that for many books that are of interests to us we can easily get multiple good opinions.
I have historically had a hard time using goodreads for recommendations. It seems that everyone has at least 100 books or so with 5 stars, which strikes me as far too much, I feel like I want a category in goodreads that’s beyond 5 stars, or something like that. Interested in tips from other people on how to make use of goodreads as a recommendation tool.
I spent a number of my teenage years aggregating online recommendations I found into lists. If you’re looking for my ‘extra category that’s beyond five stars’ I made a “worldview Shaping list’ with 11 books.
The advantage of goodread is that if you have enough friends with decent judgement you can get opinion from multiple friends. For me it’s a matter of having views from multiple people.
Whenever I get any book recommendation and think about whether or not to engage more with the book I go to goodread to see what friends have to say about the book.
I haven’t had much success using goodreads as a recommendation tool. All of the best book recommendations I’ve gotten I got in person. (I wish I was better at using goodreads to recommend things to other people but for some reason I hate using it.)
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5981446-aaron-brown
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72997602-peter-mccluskey