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outside bookclub, text only. Excellent subject material, did a wonderful job characterizing the prejudice suffered by polymaths as dilettantes, and the diminution of their contributions. Interesting sections include the response of single-field experts when a multi-field expert contributes significantly to their field.
Maybe a wall of silent resentment has shut you off from someone you love. Maybe you listen to an argument …
Thaler and Sunstein develop libertarian paternalism as a middle path between command-and-control and strict-neutrality choice architectures. Libertarian paternalism protects humans …
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they …
Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN …
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a …
An enlighting look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this book uses …
Maybe a wall of silent resentment has shut you off from someone you love. Maybe you listen to an argument …
A moral philosopher tries to distinguish bullshit from related categories such as lies and humbug.
Excellent book on playing from a fake book - great introduction to typical chord symbols, and a good discussion on spicing up the chords and melody. My only complaint is that the author calls out how the half-diminished chord gets a bad reputation for being cryptic and difficult, and then doesn't do a good job explaining it, (and it's the only chord he doesn't show the C-based key pattern for in a picture) thus maintaining the confusion!
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain is the …
really the weakest entry to the freakonomics series by far
should have just been a magazine article
