caliguliminix

"A brief history of thought" by Luck Ferry is a great book to get started.

I have a similar story. I am on an H1b with an EB1 approved petition for a Green Card. I am presently waiting for my priority date to be current for the GC to be issued. My wife who was on an H4, had to leave the US in March and got stuck in India, where US consulates have shut down. Then the travel ban hits, followed by the latest executive order which means she can't come back till at least the end of the year.

Even worse, the priority date for EB-1 India, where I am from, jumped nearly 11 months forward in 1 month, and my priority date is just 7 months behind. If I end up getting a GC before she is able to come back, we'll have to go through an entirely separate process to get her GC, which will take at least 1-2 more years.

The only option seems to be to wait for the GC for a few more months, and then move to a different country so we can be together and start anew. We will then have to start the process of getting her GC and deal with all the paperwork that entails, assuming laws don't change again. Who knows, in this time maybe we'll just end up living in the new place for good.

Both of us have PhDs from a top engineering school, own a house, and have lived in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. The chaos this is creating is mind boggling.

Not exactly a textbook, but good to read nonetheless is, "Statistics Done Wrong"[1]. It is a short read but is filled with all the most common ways in which statistical analysis is abused with concrete examples.

[1] Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593276206/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_u....