{"id":2393,"date":"2015-09-28T18:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2015-09-28T18:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:06:38","slug":"book-log-think-like-a-freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Think Like a Freak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<h1 id=\"title\" class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain<\/span> <span class=\"a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal\">Paperback<\/span> <span class=\"a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal\">\u2013 July 7, 2015<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"byline\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\">by <span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"><span class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"a-popover\" data-a-popover=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;contributor-info-B001IGV3MY&quot;,&quot;position&quot;:&quot;triggerBottom&quot;,&quot;allowLinkDefault&quot;:&quot;true&quot;}\"><a class=\"a-link-normal contributorNameID\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Steven-D.-Levitt\/e\/B001IGV3MY\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" data-asin=\"B001IGV3MY\">Steven D. Levitt<\/a> <i class=\"a-icon a-icon-popover\"><\/i> <\/span><span class=\"contribution\"><span class=\"a-color-secondary\">(Author), <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"><span class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"a-popover\" data-a-popover=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;contributor-info-B001IGV4OQ&quot;,&quot;position&quot;:&quot;triggerBottom&quot;,&quot;allowLinkDefault&quot;:&quot;true&quot;}\"><a class=\"a-link-normal contributorNameID\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stephen-J.-Dubner\/e\/B001IGV4OQ\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2\" data-asin=\"B001IGV4OQ\">Stephen J. Dubner<\/a> <i class=\"a-icon a-icon-popover\"><\/i> <\/span><span class=\"contribution\"><span class=\"a-color-secondary\">(Author)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\">This third book by the Freakonomics guys attempts to define the method behind their analysis in the first two books. \u00a0It&#8217;s an easy read, full of interesting anecdotes. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure I learned anything new that wasn&#8217;t explained in the first two books, and it wasn&#8217;t particularly long&#8230; I was surprised to find I&#8217;d come to the end with a full quarter inch thickness of pages left, which were filled with citations, an index, and a print of an interview about the book, where they basically summarize the book conversationally.<\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\">All in all, an okay addition to the library, but probably skippable.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Paperback \u2013 July 7, 2015 by Steven D. 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