Existential Physics, by Sabine Hossenfelder

  Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions is a short book covering several main ideas, each in their own chapter. You could easily just read the conclusion at the end of each, if you don't care for the details. While the book is nice and easy to read, I've watched most of Sabine Hossenfelder's YouTube videos and the book doesn't bring much more to the table.

  I've read it really fast and I agree with most of its points. Yet I kind of decry Sabine's falling into criticizing bad science most of the time, instead of focusing on the really good one. Yes, people are monkeys and scientists are people. Yes, science is about the search of better questions and funding is for the answers themselves. Yes, personal beliefs will influence and corrupt even the most brilliant scientists. But I don't want to read about this once I am already aware of it!

  Call me escapist, but I would have liked the book more if it has more positive focus than the negative.