Summary:
- "Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans" explores the misconceptions and biases humans have had about themselves throughout history. The book challenges our beliefs and assumptions about what it means to be human.
Key Learnings:
- Humans tend to overestimate their unique qualities and underestimate their similarities to other species.
- Many common notions about human behavior and cognition are based on outdated or limited understandings.
- Our understanding of gender, race, and sexual orientation has evolved over time, and these constructs are not fixed or universally defined.
- The concept of a "normal" or "natural" human experience is often socially constructed and can exclude certain individuals or groups.
- The study of human behavior and cognition requires interdisciplinary approaches and a willingness to challenge established beliefs.
Why you should read it as a UX designer:
- As a UX designer, understanding the complexities and limitations of human perception, behavior, and cognition is crucial for creating effective and user-friendly experiences.
- This book will challenge your assumptions about human
🎀 Highlights
The Dawn of Everything, as marvelously absurd. Everything. Everything! It was too gigantic, too rich, too loonily sublime. Penguin, the book’s august publisher, would hate
Munching on his burger, he still seemed dazed by a single data point: Attending TED can cost $25,000.
Kostick, who has a ponytail and the vibe of a Roz Chast character, refused to take that in. The average annual salary for an Irish laborer is about $35,000.
Cities in the Indus Valley from 4,500 years ago had high-quality egalitarian housing and show no evidence of kings or queens, no royal monuments, no aggrandizing architecture.
The Dawn opens a kaleidoscope of human possibilities, suggesting that today’s neoliberal arrangements might one day be remembered as not an epoch but a fad.
The Dawn of Everything. “It’s a really hopeful book,” he said. “It’s very easy to get trapped in that mental thing of, ‘Nothing’s ever going to change. It’s just going to be the same neoliberal, state capitalist thing forever.’ But a lot of the book is just saying, ‘No, we can change.’
The lecture touched on something called Dunbar’s number: the influential if dubious thesis by evopsych anthropologist Robin Dunbar that humans function best in groups of up to 150 people,
implying that in bigger groups, they need guns, monarchs, and bureaucracy lest they become unruly.
The Dawn of Everything, as marvelously absurd. Everything. Everything! It was too gigantic, too rich, too loonily sublime. Penguin, the book’s august publisher, would hate
Munching on his burger, he still seemed dazed by a single data point: Attending TED can cost $25,000.
Kostick, who has a ponytail and the vibe of a Roz Chast character, refused to take that in. The average annual salary for an Irish laborer is about $35,000.
Cities in the Indus Valley from 4,500 years ago had high-quality egalitarian housing and show no evidence of kings or queens, no royal monuments, no aggrandizing architecture.
The Dawn opens a kaleidoscope of human possibilities, suggesting that today’s neoliberal arrangements might one day be remembered as not an epoch but a fad.
The Dawn of Everything. “It’s a really hopeful book,” he said. “It’s very easy to get trapped in that mental thing of, ‘Nothing’s ever going to change. It’s just going to be the same neoliberal, state capitalist thing forever.’ But a lot of the book is just saying, ‘No, we can change.’
The lecture touched on something called Dunbar’s number: the influential if dubious thesis by evopsych anthropologist Robin Dunbar that humans function best in groups of up to 150 people,
implying that in bigger groups, they need guns, monarchs, and bureaucracy lest they become unruly.
