Weekend Reading: Readwise's Next Chapter, Reviewing Revolt of the Public, and the Helicopter State
September 17, 2021 • #Readwise launches a reading app, Scott Alexander reviews Martin Gurri, and Jonah Goldberg on the helicopter state.
Topic / reviews
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Books of 2020
January 7, 2021 • #An overview of my 2020 reads.
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SSC Reviews the Origin of Consciousness
June 4, 2020 • #Scott Alexander's review of the Origin of Consciousness.
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Hardy Boys and Microkids
March 17, 2020 • #A review of Tracy Kidder's 1981 book, 'The Soul of a New Machine'.
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Back to the Future
February 20, 2020 • #Peter Thiel reviews Ross Douthat's new book.
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The Infinity Machine
December 22, 2019 • #A book review and a personal story: immunotherapy and The Elegant Defense.
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A Third Force
December 2, 2019 • #A review of Graham Greene's 'The Quiet American'.
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Weekend Reading: Baseball Graphics, the Mind Illuminated, and the Crucial Century
October 19, 2019 • #Comparing baseball broadcast graphics, a review of The Mind Illuminated, and thinking about the most likely sites for the Industrial Revolution.
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Managerial Leverage
August 5, 2019 • #A review of Andy Grove's 'High Output Management', the most useful business book.
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Garmin fenix 5
July 23, 2019 • #A review of the Garmin fēnix 5 after two years of heavy use.
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Reaching the Early Majority
June 18, 2019 • #An overview of Geoffrey Moore's tech industry standard, Crossing the Chasm.
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Linguistic Relativity
April 7, 2019 • #A review of John McWhorter's 'The Language Hoax'.
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A Neural Chernobyl
March 11, 2019 • #A review of Bruce Sterling's 1992 collection of short stories, 'Globalhead'.
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The Origin and Transmutation of Species
February 10, 2019 • #Reviewing David Quammen's 'The Tangled Tree', rethinking new discoveries in evolutionary biology.
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Spirituality Without Religion
January 31, 2019 • #A quick review of Sam Harris's 'Waking Up'.
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Self Reliance and Introspection
January 16, 2019 • #A quick review of 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius.
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Books of 2018, Part 2
December 30, 2018 • #Part 2 of my annual reading wrap up.
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Books of 2018, Part 1
December 28, 2018 • #Part 1 of my annual reading wrap up.
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A Globe of Connections
December 19, 2018 • #Looking back on Parag Khanna's 'Connectography'.
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Quanta, Relativity, and the Nature of Reality
December 2, 2018 • #A review of Carlo Rovelli's 'Reality is Not What it Seems'.
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An In Depth History of Maps
November 28, 2018 • #On Lloyd A. Brown's 'A Story of Maps'
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Books of 2016
January 18, 2017 • #A summary of favorite books I read in 2016.
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Annals of the Former World
March 15, 2016 • #A review of John McPhee's book and resparking an interest in geology.
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The Craft of Baseball
July 17, 2015 • #I just finished reading George Will's 'Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball', his 1989 book that dives deep on the strategy of the game. He sits down with 4 separate professional baseball men to analyze the sport and its component parts: managing with Tony La Russa, hitting with Tony Gwynn, fielding with Cal Ripken, Jr., and pitching with Orel Hershiser.
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The Year in Books
December 21, 2013 • #Reviewing my favorites of 2013.
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Upwhen and Downwhen
October 30, 2013 • #Looking back at Asimov's time travel story, The End of Eternity.
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Spycraft
July 9, 2012 • #A review of 'Spycraft', a book about the OTS.
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