#substack girly

I went to the library looking for stuff that’d help me become a better analyst of the stuff I already write about. I came away with this. Foster’s How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor promised me “ A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between” in the title’s overlong second half. I’d call it smart, but it’s neither irreverent nor a guide.

J Wisdom constructs a cognitive profile of David Anthony Burke using his music, past interviews, and court documents from the ongoing murder investigation. He incorporates psychological concepts like Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development and the Dark Triad. But the understanding built in the video lacks important material context. The video contains two arguments I’d like to address. They’re not supported by the evidence available to the public, or general research on the elements that make this case unique.