Arasibo

This anthology makes it hard to choose which stories are the best. Every story is a crime related adventure that's satisfying but still leaves you eager for the next one.

Excellent stories. The only one I didn't care for was the Pac Man themed story.

Some of the stories are interesting but for the most part, it feels like the same story told over and over again.

I think I finally understand how cryptocurrency works.

Great book about an interesting incident that happened during WWII.

A lot of events in the book are presented as plausible yet aren't. An example. In the scenes involving the plane hijack, after the female character is able to struggle from her would be rapitst, and is about to shoot him, two other hijackers come from behind her and two shots are heard. They both missed and instead of firing again, they ran towards her. She had enough time to turn around, drop to the floor, and kill them both. Later we find out the hijackers were highly trained terrorists.... OK.

Great book.

An interesting book, but I felt it was a bit dilute of information.

Most of these stories weren't for me. Even the Novella at the end felt over extended. Too much of “ Event A feels like this, but it could be the opposite, or maybe I don't know what it is.” It got tiresome.

Interesting book with a good balance between simple examples and technical details on how our brains. The comparison of modern views on reason with enlightment reason was especially thought provoking.

This was an interesting book that gives great insight into the development of science as we think about it today. Organizing the history of science as this book does seems a daunting task, but more of an effort should have made in decreasing chronological back and forth leaping. It is hard to grasp which details are more important than others and what events came before others. Similarly, Many concepts were explained extensively when a much shorter description would have sufficed. These two weaknesses make the book hard to follow and stick to.

Short and interesting. Great read.

Great read!

Not a bad book. It feels a bit biased at times and not very organzied. Some details that don't feel too important are hammered in while others are just glanced.

I enjoyed this book more and more as it went on. The thought processes sparked by this novella are never overtly stated yet clear. In addition, the book is written in a simple language. A recurring idea in this book: Sometimes, things are what they are and not what we want them to be, even if we are unaware of why or how.

It seems humans consider much less information than we should when thinking. We make decisions using only trace amounts of information, while being convinced we are being super duper smart. This is a phenomenon that could lead to unhappiness and anxiety if confronted head one. Fortunately, were too dumb to realize this in the first place.