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November 17, 2024

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).

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September 18, 2014

Much better than 1491.

December 5, 2017
September 10, 2014

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.”

September 25, 2016

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

June 3, 2015

Omphalos is the best Ted Chiang's story yet.

May 26, 2019

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

January 30, 2018
March 30, 2016

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

January 8, 2018
August 16, 2017

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

May 22, 2016

Bad statistics is bad; water is wet.

December 21, 2017

The whole is less than the sum of its parts.

December 28, 2017
December 15, 2017
June 14, 2016

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.

October 20, 2014
January 18, 2013
September 17, 2014