What Are You Reading Right Now? [Book Recommendations & Insights]

[Joshe]

@cjoseph90 

[Joshe]

James Allen is very underrated. 

[Joshe]

Another one of my favs: 

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are

The author worked for Google as a data scientist and had access to Google's search data. 

Interesting findings (AI summarized):

• Searches that include the word "nig***" increase around 30% on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
• On the night Obama was elected in 2008, roughly 1 in 100 Google searches mentioning him also included "KKK" or "nig***."
• Sixteen of the 100 most popular Pornhub searches among men involved incest-themed pornography. Nine of the top 100 searches among women did too.
• Women were about twice as likely as men to search for pornography involving violence, pain, or humiliation directed at women. About 25% of women's searches for heterosexual pornography involved those themes.
• Porn searches suggest that homosexuality is considerably more common in conservative areas than traditional surveys would lead you to believe. A lot of people apparently aren't being honest about their sexuality.
• Parents are 2.5 times more likely to search whether their son is gifted than their daughter, but twice as likely to search whether their daughter is overweight.
• Parents are 3.6 times more likely to Google that they regret having children than childless adults are to Google that they regret not having children.
• Anxiety-related searches are more common in poorer, less-educated, rural areas than in wealthy cities.
• People report using far more condoms than are actually sold.
• The most common Google complaint about marriage was a lack of sex.
• Women searched about boyfriends refusing sex twice as often as men searched about girlfriends refusing sex.
• Women were more likely to search "Is my husband gay?" than "Is my husband cheating?" (lol)
• Men were far more worried about penis size than the searches about partners suggested was warranted.
• Men searched for ways to perform oral sex on themselves as often as for ways to give women orgasms. (wtf?)
• Americans made over 700,000 searches related to self-induced abortions in 2015.
• Popular violent movies were associated with less violent crime, not more.

  • An analysis of US box-office receipts and hourly crime records found that violent crime fell during weekends when popular violent films were playing. One proposed explanation was that potentially aggressive young men were spending evenings watching movies rather than drinking in places where violence was more likely. 

 

Just a ton of juicy insights to build your understanding and intuition of human psychology. 

[Spiritual Warrior]

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[Spiritual Warrior]

On 10/13/2026 at 6:47 AM, Zenterus said:

Insight: One of the reasons that humans have a weird relationship with their anus, genitals and sexuality is because those aspects of us remind us of our inherent animalistic nature and thus become a gateway towards deeper existential realizations about our fallibility and, ultimately, mortality.

 

Someone just gave me this book as a gift. I find death to be such an interesting topic as it is what every human being is afraid of the most. Something tells me that an insight into death is an insight into the Truth of reality.