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great book on this topic is friedan's feminine mystique (1963). She wrote about the spiritual crisis affecting a generation of young women who were more likely

great book on this topic is friedan's feminine mystique (1963). She wrote about the spiritual crisis affecting a generation of young women who were more likely to be 'homemakers' than their mothers. worth reading at least the intro IMO for anyone who feels dissatisfied with their work / life / contribution not sure how yang made this his topic. my sense of his random walk is 'had a job at yahoo' -> future of work -> UBI -> numbers guy -> times square -> ? really miss the andrew yang policy bot on twitter though

klodolph 5y ago
> great book on this topic is friedan's feminine mystique (1963) Another is “The Will To Love: Men, Masculinity, and Change” by bell hooks (2004) There aren’t a lot of authors that I feel get it right about issues relating to men and masculinity. Bell hooks is one of the few. > not sure how yang made this his topic. my sense of his random walk is 'had a job at yahoo' -> future of work -> UBI -> numbers guy -> times square -> ? I live in NYC and spend a lot of time online, so we got kinda saturated with Yang during the last year because he was in the mayoral race. As far as I can tell, he’s a passionate self-promoter, and engages on a shallow level with tons of different topics as some kind of cynical way to promote his brand. If he were at least more skilled at it I would respect him more, but he’s made so many obvious PR blunders and it’s obvious he doesn’t listen to advisors. He pokes around at sensitive topics like race and sexism, but as far as I can tell it’s so he can stay in the news, because he rarely has anything interesting to say on those subjects. It seems like a random walk because he’s doing whatever will get him in the news online.
- muh_gradle 5y ago
  I also live in NYC, and completely disagree with this take on Yang. I can't think of anyone who gets hated more unfairly than him. He provides actual substantive policy suggestions with evidence to support his claims. He doesn't resort to dirty muck-raking the same way that the other mayoral candidates and the NY Times did. In fact, NY Times and the NY Daily News spent so much time focusing on bashing Yang that it's literally the reason why Eric Adams of all people ended up being our mayor.
  - klodolph 5y ago
    I read the policies on Yang's website during the NYC race and dug into them. > He provides actual substantive policy suggestions with evidence to support his claims. This is untrue. The policy suggestions are all poorly researched and reminded me of the kind of ideas you'd see on a comedy show like Silicon Valley... you know, TV depictions of tech bros coming up with "solutions" for problems that they don't understand. I'm not saying that they were all laughable, but it was very hit or miss. Yang had some good ideas mixed in with bad ideas, and I think a combination of inexperience, lack of deeper research, and a refusal to listen to experts is what caused all the problems in his policies. > In fact, NY Times and the NY Daily News spent so much time focusing on bashing Yang that it's literally the reason why Eric Adams of all people ended up being our mayor. Yang ran a incompetent campaign. He relied far too heavily on internet presence--Twitter, Reddit, etc. I don't know why he thought that was enough. Say what you will about Eric Adams--Adams wasn't in my top 5, and so I didn't vote for him--but Eric Adams knew how to work with the press and he spent far more time hitting the streets during the election than Yang did. Adams was far more in touch with the people in NYC who vote, far more knowledgeable about how the press works, and had experience with NYC politics. You can complain about "hit pieces", but Yang was out of touch with most voters in NYC, made a series of obvious PR blunders, showed no competence at working with the press, and had nearly zero experience working with NYC politics... Yang didn't even vote in local elections.
    - muh_gradle 5y ago
      > The policy suggestions are all poorly researched and reminded me of the kind of ideas you'd see on a comedy show like Silicon Valley... you know, TV depictions of tech bros coming up with "solutions" for problems that they don't understand. Spare me the uneducated "tech bro" commentary that I've heard throughout. It's unoriginal. I'm eager to hear your ranked choices and what policies made so much more sense to you though than Yang's and what Yang's good ideas were. Yang made PR plunders sure, but it was completely disproportionate. It's odd to me that you can be so complimentary towards Eric Adams though, Brooklyn borough president, a position that's notorious for doing literally nothing. Voting in local elections is important, but I consider living in NYC rather than Fort Lee, NJ to be mayor to be even more important. NYC newspapers certainly didn't care though. Here's the best example of the muck-raking that I can think of, which I've been thinking about since Michelle Go's murder. Yang talked about the mentally ill, homeless population, the need for enforcement of Kendra's law, psych beds, and the concern of ordinary New Yorkers. The media and voters ran with the soundbites to mean that Yang hates homeless people. Kendra's Law would have saved Michelle Go's life by the way.
- jessaustin 5y ago
  Perhaps you mean The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love? Also, it is bizarre to characterize Yang's mayoral campaign as listening too little to advisors. He seemed a completely different person than in the presidential campaign, and it was mostly because of all the expensive new consultants.
jimmyjazz14 5y ago
Did Andrew Yang work at Yahoo sure your not thinking of Jerry Yang?
- awinter-py 5y ago
  oops you're right, no idea where I got that factoid yang had a test prep company that got bought by kaplan, apparently, per wikipedia

klodolph 5y ago

> great book on this topic is friedan's feminine mystique (1963) Another is “The Will To Love: Men, Masculinity, and Change” by bell hooks (2004) There aren’t a lot of authors that I feel get it right about issues relating to men and masculinity. Bell hooks is one of the few. > not sure how yang made this his topic. my sense of his random walk is 'had a job at yahoo' -> future of work -> UBI -> numbers guy -> times square -> ? I live in NYC and spend a lot of time online, so we got kinda saturated with Yang during the last year because he was in the mayoral race. As far as I can tell, he’s a passionate self-promoter, and engages on a shallow level with tons of different topics as some kind of cynical way to promote his brand. If he were at least more skilled at it I would respect him more, but he’s made so many obvious PR blunders and it’s obvious he doesn’t listen to advisors. He pokes around at sensitive topics like race and sexism, but as far as I can tell it’s so he can stay in the news, because he rarely has anything interesting to say on those subjects. It seems like a random walk because he’s doing whatever will get him in the news online.

muh_gradle 5y ago
I also live in NYC, and completely disagree with this take on Yang. I can't think of anyone who gets hated more unfairly than him. He provides actual substantive policy suggestions with evidence to support his claims. He doesn't resort to dirty muck-raking the same way that the other mayoral candidates and the NY Times did. In fact, NY Times and the NY Daily News spent so much time focusing on bashing Yang that it's literally the reason why Eric Adams of all people ended up being our mayor.
- klodolph 5y ago
  I read the policies on Yang's website during the NYC race and dug into them. > He provides actual substantive policy suggestions with evidence to support his claims. This is untrue. The policy suggestions are all poorly researched and reminded me of the kind of ideas you'd see on a comedy show like Silicon Valley... you know, TV depictions of tech bros coming up with "solutions" for problems that they don't understand. I'm not saying that they were all laughable, but it was very hit or miss. Yang had some good ideas mixed in with bad ideas, and I think a combination of inexperience, lack of deeper research, and a refusal to listen to experts is what caused all the problems in his policies. > In fact, NY Times and the NY Daily News spent so much time focusing on bashing Yang that it's literally the reason why Eric Adams of all people ended up being our mayor. Yang ran a incompetent campaign. He relied far too heavily on internet presence--Twitter, Reddit, etc. I don't know why he thought that was enough. Say what you will about Eric Adams--Adams wasn't in my top 5, and so I didn't vote for him--but Eric Adams knew how to work with the press and he spent far more time hitting the streets during the election than Yang did. Adams was far more in touch with the people in NYC who vote, far more knowledgeable about how the press works, and had experience with NYC politics. You can complain about "hit pieces", but Yang was out of touch with most voters in NYC, made a series of obvious PR blunders, showed no competence at working with the press, and had nearly zero experience working with NYC politics... Yang didn't even vote in local elections.
  - muh_gradle 5y ago
    > The policy suggestions are all poorly researched and reminded me of the kind of ideas you'd see on a comedy show like Silicon Valley... you know, TV depictions of tech bros coming up with "solutions" for problems that they don't understand. Spare me the uneducated "tech bro" commentary that I've heard throughout. It's unoriginal. I'm eager to hear your ranked choices and what policies made so much more sense to you though than Yang's and what Yang's good ideas were. Yang made PR plunders sure, but it was completely disproportionate. It's odd to me that you can be so complimentary towards Eric Adams though, Brooklyn borough president, a position that's notorious for doing literally nothing. Voting in local elections is important, but I consider living in NYC rather than Fort Lee, NJ to be mayor to be even more important. NYC newspapers certainly didn't care though. Here's the best example of the muck-raking that I can think of, which I've been thinking about since Michelle Go's murder. Yang talked about the mentally ill, homeless population, the need for enforcement of Kendra's law, psych beds, and the concern of ordinary New Yorkers. The media and voters ran with the soundbites to mean that Yang hates homeless people. Kendra's Law would have saved Michelle Go's life by the way.
jessaustin 5y ago
Perhaps you mean The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love? Also, it is bizarre to characterize Yang's mayoral campaign as listening too little to advisors. He seemed a completely different person than in the presidential campaign, and it was mostly because of all the expensive new consultants.

jimmyjazz14 5y ago

Did Andrew Yang work at Yahoo sure your not thinking of Jerry Yang?

awinter-py 5y ago
oops you're right, no idea where I got that factoid yang had a test prep company that got bought by kaplan, apparently, per wikipedia