Couple of books about teams
(Added what I think mine might be …)…
Books
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The Enid Blyton Reboot
I recently started reading "Five on Treasure Island" with my daughter, which kick-started the whole series. However, I was puzzled by the absence of Enid Blyton's works from the local li…
Book haul from a sale
The many Nostalgias of Harry Potter
(an old draft!) I first read the Harry Potter books when I was a teenager. I revisited them when my daughter read them recently. There are, as I realized, several layers of nostalgia within them.…
Couldn’t resist buying this
Making languages
An excellent look behind the scenes, of fictional languages in popular works today. I've been curious about whether or not the new Dune movie would feature "the J-word", and looks like…
On heros becoming villains
It has been surreal to watch several of my early heroes become "villains" Matt Taibbi: got turned on to him after insightful reporting after 2009 (remember Goldman Sachs as giant squid) --…
A Stephen Hawking (and then some) for our time
Picked these up at Barnes and Noble today I discovered Carlo Rovelli through "Helgoland" and "Reality is not what it seems", but he really has an amazing ability to write about ot…
Filterworld, Flatworld
From a book review in last Friday’s WSJ:, for this book:…
"Live" Objects
An interesting new paper on "Live Metacircular Runtimes" (or, to put it a bit edgily, "making live objects great again" 😀) The examples and focus are from "the Smalltalk sc…
Carlo Rovelli doesn’t always review books …
… but when he does, it’s amazing! You’ve got Kepler (!) and Nagarjuna (!) and the Fall of the Roman Empire, all together.…
Fables for children
From the Barnes & Noble edition of “Greek Myths: a wonder book for girls and boys” By Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1851 (!!)…