It's a good book. We encourage too many people to be abstract symbol manipulators and encourage too few people to work with their hands (or hands and mind together): http://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boost.... It's got to be pretty obvious not just to me, but to just about any intellectually honest person teaching at non-elite colleges and universities that a whole lot of people are in them who take out lots of student loans but get very little out of the process.

"...hands and mind together..."

mens et manus - does MIT really practice that or is it just a motto with no action behind it?

You need hands to breed yeast or test mice or splice genes.

Probably not what you had in mind, but plenty of wetlab work gets done on campus every day.

+1. I think the book would be much more popular if it were not for the clunky title, which is a tribute to George Will's book "Statecraft as Soulcraft".

Great book, read it several times and gifted it several more. His second book "The World Beyond Your Head" is much deeper and even more insightful. I hope he continues to probe and write like that.

Dittos. Rather philosophical, but definitely worth working through.