I bought this book recently and went through it in a single weekend. It reads very easily. The book is a dialogue between a philosopher and a young person; naturally, in the beginning, the young person is very skeptical about what the philosopher has to say. They discuss philosophical and psychological concepts in five days, and each day is a separate chapter, whereas each chapter is 40 pages on average.

The authors are mainly inspired by the psychologist Alfred Adler and use many of his concepts/ideas, but they also find inspiration in Socrates, Platon, Aristotle.

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In 2018 I self-published my first book (Gentle Introduction to Dependent Types with Idris) using Leanpub and KDP (Amazon CreateSpace at the time). I blogged about that here.

In this blog post, I will write about moving away from KDP and publishing with a more normal publisher.

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I recently completed Philosophy and Critical Thinking (Syllabus), an edX course. The course took about 2 weeks, on and off. This is my second course in philosophy, and my earlier writing on a previous course can be found here.

The course contains 6 modules in total. The format is, for each module there are submodules, and most submodules have text that explains the ideas, accompanied by videos that are a distilled version of the text. Finally, each module includes a graded quiz. The course intertwines philosophy (philosophical ideas i.e. who said what at some point) and critical thinking (logic).

(Meta) The way I consumed the contents:

• Skimming through the texts, including ChatGPT section summaries (this was particularly useful)
• Watching all videos
• Taking notes (thus this blog post)

(Meta Meta) Talking about the way I consumed the content gives more information about what my actions might have been during the course 🙂

In this blog post, I will briefly overview the ideas being discussed.

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