Meditations on Violence

We read Meditations on Violence by Sgt Rory Miller, a US corrections officer and martial artist, discovered in some Reddit argument on martial arts. We absolutely tore through it, sub 24 hours, on a weekday too, day job in disarray.

Miller is one of the men who is sent into a prison riot to sort it out, a member of that class of humans who confront violence every day so the rest of us don’t have to. He spends the book pointing out stuff you’ve always known subconsciously but have never really thought about. Stuff that’s obvious when you think about it, but one never thinks about it. Powerful mental models to help you assemble the various observations we’ve all made out in the world.

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