“If we want to see where we went wrong
We needn’t look too far,
For where we’ll be and where we’ve been
Is always where we are.
And everything that comes your way
Is something you once gave,
Somebody feels the water
Every time you make a wave.”

I’ve been on a roll this year - on average, I’ve been reading a book and a half every week.

When I order new books, I often find that they’re all connected in some way. Sometimes it’s because a source recommends multiple books at once, and I’ll just order them all. Other times I have a harder time explaining on how they’re so connected.

For example, I ordered Mindless Eating and The Hidden Persuaders - a book written in 1957 about behaviors around advertising and another is a 2006 book about the contemporary American food epidemic.

I read Hidden Persuaders first. When I opened Mindless Eating a little later, the first chapter