Oluo‘s “So You Want To Talk About Race” is a book I recommend often, so I was pretty excited for Mediocre. But ultimately what made So You Want To so great was largely missing from Mediocre. Oluo leans heavily on history both long past (think Roosevelt and the national parks) and recent (Bernie Bros) without much of her critical analysis that breathed so much life and made her other book not only accessible but a pleasure to read and learn from.