Content tagged with “philosophy”

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Astonish Yourself! 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 1, 2022
Words
155

“I abandoned this, so I won’t rate it. This book is a set of short chapters (101 of them) 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: Sit in a…”

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 29, 2024
Words
266

“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…”

Bitwise: A Life in Code
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
January 5, 2019
Words
252

“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…”

Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 16, 2023
Words
245

“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…”

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 3, 2019
Words
278

“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…”

The Good-Enough Life
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 7, 2023
Words
509

“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…”

The Last Lecture
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 19, 2018
Words
62

“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…”

Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 5, 2018
Words
58

“ 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. ”

Ontological Arg
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Words
333

“There are four major arguments for the existence of God. This is the hardest one to grasp and the easiest one to forget. This is the only argument of the four which is based strictly on logic, rather than observation. In its simplest form, it boils down to this: because we can imagine God, He must…”

Teach Yourself To Live
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 7, 2023
Words
256

“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…”

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 17, 2024
Words
169

“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…”

The World According to Star Wars
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 17, 2023
Words
249

“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…”