Jacob Shymanski

And I found this and that.

It shows that the author isn't arrogant.

That the author is questioning themselves, that they're actually taking it deeply and not just writing something for their vanity to be this godlike voice in people's ears.

Because I swear to God, that's what it is for some authors sometimes.

I'll add another do to this list.

A good quality for nonfiction to have is to be able to connect the story of individuals to bigger ideas, but also the other way around.

Connect bigger ideas to how they affect individuals.

Explain how people affect the world and how the world affects people.

You need to talk about both individuals and the big picture.

And you can't focus on just one of them, otherwise it's shallow.

If you're just talking about a person, then it's like disconnected from the world.

It's like, why do I care about just a single person in a vacuum?

Why do I care about the entire world without connecting to the people within it?

There has to be a connection between the two.

And a book that I can recommend along these lines is Careless People by Sarah Witt Williams, which I've talked about on the show before.

She was a high-level executive at Meta, formerly Facebook, for years during the 2010s.

And what she exposes in this book is the attitude and the philosophies of people, of high executives in big tech, right?

And it connects the people who run these companies to the actions and the policies that these companies enact and have huge impacts on the world.

She's connecting the people who run it to the world that is deeply affected by these companies.

Fantastic memoir, Careless People, Sarah Wynn Williams.