Dopamine Nation

Reading Journey

Started: 2024-05-04T19:53:57Z
Ended: 2024-05-05T21:42:11Z
Total Time Read: 2hrs 4mins 46secs

Code

%run _help_reading.py
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv(
  'https://github.com/MrGeislinger/victorsothervector/raw/main/'
  'data/reading/all_reading-clean.csv'
)

book_name = """Dopamine Nation"""
one_title = one_title_data(df, book_name)
one_title_summary = get_summary_by_day(one_title)
generate_plot(one_title_summary, book_name);

/Users/victor/Developer/Workspace/victorsothervector/books/_help_reading.py:78: UserWarning: set_ticklabels() should only be used with a fixed number of ticks, i.e. after set_ticks() or using a FixedLocator. Otherwise, ticks may be mislabeled.
  ax.set_xticklabels(

Figure 1: Reading done for Dopamine Nation

title: “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence” book: title: “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence” format: html: code-fold: true creator: “@victorgeislinger” —

Thoughts on Dopamine Nation

Overview

This was one of the two books I heard mentioned from a child psychologist being that one was ‘good’ and the other was less helpful. I don’t think this is the ‘good’ book. It was fine but kept feeling this was more about shocking stories. I didn’t get as much out of it as maybe someone who hasn’t really considered how addictions & neurotransmitters affect the brain.

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