So Many Good Books

Update #3

Im now completely and hopelessly under the spell of Anand Giridharadas. So, yup- another book on the list.


Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
 Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018


Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010


Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009

The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)

On the Nightstand
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
 
Not Started Yet
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Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000

A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997

First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007

Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015


Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
 Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018

Liten to This

One of my new favorite thinkers is Anand Giridharadas and here is a brief talk with Britta Hosman discussing his ideas about our plutocracy.

 

 

Seth Nails It Again

Nailed it.

https://seths.blog/2020/03/the-paradox-of-selfishness/

Its Super Tuesday

Not everyone has had the right to vote.
This is not ancient history - by any stretch.

If you don't vote - you are showing disdain for the battles people waged before you.


One small story out of the thousands that got us to where we are now.

"The woman with the whip" - Suffragette Helen Ogston causes an international stir

Now I Have Two Razors for Quick Evaluations

When you think people are malicious and not just stupid - remember Hanlons razor.

When you forget the difference between possible and probable - remember Occams razor.

Just Curious

If God is real and he sent his only son Jesus to save the world.
Why were the Mayans left out of it all?

Springtime in Phoenix (almost that is)

Look closely.
Above the light
Theres a tiny little nest and two tiny little beaks pointing skyward.

Soon they'll be gone.
Its almost spring.