Software PM, bridge teacher, board game geek. Interested in stock markets and rational thinking.
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"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why …
A good set of evidence but weak, narrow-minded conclusions.
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies …
I wish it had more SF and less leftist agenda.
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars …
I wish I could rate it 4.5/5. It reads like an action-packed SF golden age classics, with focus on people, not technology. Very solid explanation of how little it takes for a disperse society to fall into a civil war.
What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational," where you forsake all …
A cornerstone of modern works on rationality. Some ideas are brilliant and eye-opening, some tend to raise questions, and some are difficult to comprehend. Will have to re-read to understand better.
What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational," where you forsake all human feeling to embrace Cold …
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an …
Borjes' surreal worlds described in the characteristic cozy style. Magnificent and intoxicating, Clarke does know how to write on magic.
Collection of short stories.
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a …
Expected more from a Hugo award.
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles …
In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". …
Started literally in a Fallout postapocalyptic setting and turned out into a dilemma between human and God's morals. Very unusual. Very thought-provoking.
