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This might have been a great book about sex work (the chapter on Backpage and other classifieds is very good), but on most other topics it is very shallow (and very US-centric).

Omphalos is the best Ted Chiang's story yet.

Errors, logistics, and infrastructure are more important than blood, sweat, and tears; trucks are better than heroism.

All the cool and high-status people read this book and you should too.

The whole is less than the sum of its parts.

Bad statistics is bad; water is wet.

Much better than 1491.

Too many lists and too many generic descriptions like “This area has a long history of producing good wines, but lately they've become even better.”

Spotify playlists: https://open.spotify.com/user/razumau/playlist/48iiUSUegC9oc3fDRE58CY, https://open.spotify.com/user/razumau/playlist/0hEjft9RUfmBrBEVi8Uq9L.

A collection of kinda well-written New Yorker profiles of scientists. Not a book on chaos.

The book is worse.

It still reads like lecture notes. Some lectures are good and full of ideas it's hard not to agree with, some are full of business book bullshit and graphs like this. Maybe, if you want to make some non-crappy string theory references, general education still has some value.