According to big data, as Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tells us in Everybody Lies,1 only 9% of readers read the summary of a book, so why bother? I was sharing this nugget of information with my spouse as I was reluctantly contemplating how to end this book. She was incredulous; surely this piece of information is false, she claimed. During her writing of a PhD thesis in urban planning, she and her fellow doctorate students always flipped to the summary of a book or research to analyze the merits of the information.
Upon further pondering, I think I ...
