Content tagged with "philosophy"
I abandoned this, so I won’t rate it. This book is a set of short chapters which are exercises meant to expand your perception of the world . I got through 5-6 of the chapters, but it’s very odd. The exercises are extremely abstract and vaguely spiritual. Some examples: I just didn’t get it. I…
I had to stop reading this. I gave it fully 100 pages, but just couldn’t figure it out. I don’t know what the point of the book is. It’s some kind of metaphysical treatise about…something. Given the title, I assume the writer was trying to explain how we develop some higher level of awareness, but I…
The book is weird. It’s not about “code,” really. It’s about human representation in code. It’s really about how humans relate to code, and about how humans are represented as code. Two chapters in the middle are representative, and neither have anything to do with code – One discussed the…
I gave this book every chance, I really did. I didn’t abandon it, but I skipped around a lot. It’s purportedly about postmodernism. Or, perhaps about a history of how we ended up postmodern? I wasn’t sure. Each chapter was basically a history of many things, often pop-culture. I would read a…
This book wasn’t what I thought it was. I found it in a Hacker News thread about “books that made you look at the world differently.” Also, I kinda thought it was about game theory, which I’m genuinely interested in. This is a book about philosophy. The author posits that there are two types of…
This is an incredibly idealistic book that will never be read by anyone who needs to read it to bring its dream about. I thought it was a book about accepting imperfection in one’s own life, a la Four Thousand Weeks. However, it’s really a book about how the entire world should accept less than…
I originally thought this was just the transcript of The Last Lecture video, but it’s more than that. It’s an expansion of the principles Pausch discussed in TLL, which basically becomes a book of life advice. Some of it is good, some of it is obvious, but it’s a quick easy read. If you’ve seen the…
A very deep, theoretical book on the design process, and on matching a solution to a problem. This one isn’t for the faint of heart. It attempts to distill the design process to math, almost. I got a little lost towards the end, but I love a deep dissection of a process like this, so it was fun.
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Easton Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Easton Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
This is kind of an odd little book. It was first published in 1955, and it’s a guidebook to life, basically. It covers things like personal development, relationships, goal-setting, etc. Lots of basic, obvious stuff, which has been covered in countless books since then, but I wonder how novel this…
This is simply the text of David Foster Wallace’s famed commencement speech given at Kenyon College a few years before he took his own life. What’s interesting is the format – it’s a tiny book , and each sentence is on it’s own page. Seriously – an entire page is each just one single sentence. It’s…
This was recommended by a friend. I assumed it was straightforward self-help, but it’s something very different. It should be classified as “New Age.” There’s a lot in here about “spiritual energy,” which does nothing for me. I was willing to overlook that, but then the author started to make…
This book is odd but lovable. I can’t imagine how it got written. It’s about Star Wars. But not about any particular aspect of Star Wars. Rather, it’s a meditation about the…ideas of Star Wars? The book was written right after The Force Awakens was released. That was the first film in the third…
