Jo Bennett

Invest in Your Human Capital for a Good Life An economist explores how economic principles can inform strategies for leading a good life and optimize our biggest asset—the brain.

This excellent article gets to the heart of the brilliant book, Ignite, by one of the UK's leading economists Neeltje van Horen. Out now with @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social #psychology #scienceofhappiness
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Christmas bookshop bestsellers: the festive season arrives in a flurry of sales as prize-winners dominate Orbital takes off as a wide range of titles boost bookshop coffers.

Christmas bookshop bestsellers: the festive season arrives in a flurry of sales as prize-winners dominate 👇 #BookSky www.thebookseller.com/bestsellers/...

BBC 100 Women 2024: Who is on the list this year? - BBC News BBC reveals the 2024 100 Women list. Here are the most inspiring and influential women for 2024 from around the world selected by the BBC.

Great to see this year's BBC 100 Women list, with the theme of 'resilience' featuring none other than Gisele Pelicot. Great to see 22-year old trailblazing politician Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke being recognised in this.

It took a wet weekend to finally get myself to the library. Heath (1.5 yr old for context) was less interested in the children's books and kept finding 'gifts' for me, including this one (and a graphic novel about a cat written in Chinese). What can I say? He has his mother's eclectic taste.

National Book Foundation Presents 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Barbara Kingsolver. YouTube video by National Book Foundation

I'm so happy about this. I would genuinely read a shopping list written by Barbara Kingsolver. If you haven't read her earlier work, particularly The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven, lordy lord, get into it. Any other fans out there? If so, we should probably be friends.

Such a beautiful morning this morning!

**shudders**

I'll Never Call Him Dad Again - Bonnier Books

I have the immense privilege of working on I'll Never Call Him Dad Again, a memoir from Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisèle Pelicot. This is a story of unfathomable trauma, but it's also about what we do with that & how we rebuild. Her words stand as a rallying call to end chemical submission.

The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.

Well, this was a wild ride.

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...

I found this piece absolutely fascinating from a journalist perspective - how we treat subjects and sensitivities - and as The Border Trilogy has to be one of my favourite series (what can I say, I'm a die-hard for anything set in the American west).

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I missed the first Twitter wave and felt like I was always playing catch up. Bluesky feels like a fresh start. Like we're rolling back to the 2010's. It's very on-brand for this millennial trend we're currently surfing. Absolutely no-one can convince me on the merits of low-rise jeans though.