Sleeping Beauty
I came across this almost by accident, having picked it up during a library visit with my daughter, and having got stuck at the bottom of the bag and forgotten. It turned out to be a strange, wonderf…
Books
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The power of art
From a book I’m slowly reading right now, “The Creative Act”…
On cultural literacy
… Or the lack therof Extract here from the foreword to “classic myths to read aloud” (highly recommend getting this to read with kids!)…
Audiobook Price Comparison
Here's something I listened to recently, "The Coddling of the American Mind", as available for purchase across different platforms: Audible (Amazon) is selling it for $12.60 (or 1 credi…
Choosing an e-reader
I shared this recently, so more on this below I had the “keyboard kindle” 12 years ago, and used it a lot At that time, all that existed was the Kindle (and a Sony model, which is a separate note…
Precarious times
An excerpt from Peter Turchin's new book, "End Times"…
Read-Aloud
Have a good pipeline of night-time reading lined up:…
A chatGpt explainer
(found this in my drafts from Aug 2, 2023) A surprisingly good book, it explains things well and graphically -- don't be thrown off by its use of Mathematica!…
Anticipating the end of surveillance…
From this brilliant book: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697 (Side note: taking a screenshot and applying "highlighting" markup is surprisingly…
Over-humanity
From a recent library book:…
Un-obfuscating the public
In a way I’m grateful to Stripe here, because I’d want for the list of curated books at Stripe Press, I would never have come across Martin Gurri and his book, “The revolt of the public”. This is eas…
Revolting times
I had bought Martin Gurri’s The revolt of the public some time back, but after reading the first few pages, had abandoned it. I recently picked it up and found that it is a book that picks up spectac…