Bookshelf

These are my notes on books I’ve read.

You can click on each one to get to the corresponding post about that book. There’s a varying level of detail in each post; some just have a couple of quick thoughts and maybe some clippings like [[The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Hoffman]]N, and some have very detailed notes like [[Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman]]N.

2024

[[On Numbers and Games, Conway]]N
⭐⭐️️
"The games we shall consider are in spirit closer to Chess than to Football."
[[Some Fruits of Solitude, Penn]]N
[[Map and Territory, Yudkowsky]]N
[[The Journal of John Woolman]]N
[[The God Delusion, Dawkins]]N
[[The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin]]N
[[There Is No Antimemetics Division, qntm]]N
[[Norway, March]]N
[[The Selfish Gene, Dawkins]]N
[[Optionality, Meadows]]N
[[A Mathematician's Apology, Hardy]]N
[[The Book of Numbers, Conway]]N
[[Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Aaronson]]N
⭐⭐️️
"While quantum mechanics was invented a century ago to solve technical problems in physics, today it can be fruitfully explained from an extremely different perspective: as part of the history of ideas, in math, logic, computation, and philosophy, about the limits of the knowable."
[[One Hundred Years of Solitude, Márquez]]N
⭐⭐️️
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
[[The Alchemist, Coelho]]N
[[80,000 Hours, Todd]]N
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[[The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Hoffman]]N

"Erdős first did mathematics at the age of three, but for the last twenty-five years of his life, since the death of his mother, he put in nineteen-hour days, keeping himself fortified with 10 to 20 milligrams of Bezedrine or Ritalin, strong espresso, and caffeine tablets."
[[Revenge, Ogawa]]N
[[Poems of the Decade 2011-2020]]N
[[Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck]]N
[[Gone Girl, Flynn]]N

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