Books

Paul Bloom shares six terrific books about decision-making by non-psychologists. These books offer unique perspectives on psychology and insightful approaches to understanding decision-making processes.

America’s independent bookstores may look like the tattered, provincial shops of a bygone era—holding onto their existence by the slimmest thread. And booksellers may appear genial and absent-minded, like characters out of Dickens. But in reality, they’re the marketing geniuses of our time.

Genes tend to be transmitted when they make us do things that transmit genes.

Tsundoku is a Japanese term for buying books and magazines far faster than you can read them. Döstädning is a concept from Sweden that translates into death cleaning, advice for how to get rid of your stuff before making other people do it after you die.

Get to know some books by Vernor Vinge

At one point Dick believed that when the last of the homeoplasmates were killed off with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E., “real time ceased.” The plasmate reentered human history in 1945, when jars stuffed with ancient gnostic codices were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt.

Filosofą išgarsinusi „Nuovargio visuomenė“ (vok. Müdigkeitsgesellschaft) Vokietijoje išleista 2010 m. Šioje knygoje jis dešimtmečiu aplenkė šiandien visuotinai pripažįstamą perdegimo kultūros įsigalėjimą, ypač būdingą vadinamajai tūkstantmečio kartai (gimusiesiems 1981–1996 m.). Kasdien patiriama tokia stipri stimuliacija, ypač internete ir socialiniuose tinkluose, kad sunkiai begebama jausti ar savarankiškai mąstyti. Ironiška, kad Hano knygos populiarinamos iš lūpų į lūpas būtent per internetą.

Have you read any?

In this respect I differed completely from my children, who began to read (I suspect) only after they had left their universities. Like many parents who brought up teenagers in the 1970s, it worried me that my children were more interested in going to pop concerts than in reading “Pride and Prejudice” or “The Brothers Karamazov” — how naive I must have been. But it seemed to me then that they were missing something vital to the growth of their imaginations, that radical reordering of the world that only the great novelists can achieve.

Some appetizers for the book on breaking Enigma.

Have enjoyed The New York Trilogy

Looking forward to reading the book someday.

The Long Seventies Podcast episode on The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Is V in V for Vendetta good or evil?

Review of a book

Check out the book page as well (and you can download the book for free) - https://goatgreatesteconomistofalltime.ai/en

They were published from the 20s to the 50s and written for children, so they're quite anachronistic. I find them charming! My elementary school was discarding them 30 years ago and I claimed the whole pile.

Hmm...

Caught my eye as I really loved Paul Bowles *The Sheltering Sky *.

conspiracies, cults, and cover-ups Robert Anton Wilson

Some tasty bits are coming

All dickheads unite ;)

A book review.

Seems like fun book ;)

(the annual celebration of James Joyce and Ulysses - link to the audio version inside)

Whois James Tabor? a Biblical scholar that I am following for some reason.

Robert Shea's son has generously released all of his father's novels on the internet under a Creative Commons license.

Free pdf inside

Seems to be an interesting book

I liked the point of view and feel it has lots of truth in it.

Some books listed

...the authors of these three titles—Kerry Thornley, James Shelby Downard and Antero Alli—themselves had their own roles, both large or small, in the annals of Discordia.

Some books mentioned

Revisiting the work of the American futurist and self-described agnostic mystic, Robert Anton Wilson, forty years since the publication of his Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, Sean Kitching finds the author’s questing vision more vital and necessary today than it has ever been..

Here is the Official Blurb: "From Futura Pocketbooks, a 'Lazy Person’s Guide' to media framing. This updated and extended 2023 edition explains how headlines and news stories can be decoded with the latest know-how from the cognitive sciences. Discover how media narratives and political spin are unravelled and deciphered by frame semantics – an essential part of what has been labelled, 'Cognitive Revolution'."

Not sure how this got into my reading list, nevertheless it was interesting to read about Borges' thoughts

Book list that has shaped the podcast.

Seems that might be an interesting one.

Some of the books I might be tempted to read some day.

...In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Soni and Goodman reveal Claude Shannon’s full story for the first time. With unique access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and always playful genius to life....

Got recommended in a Lunchclub meeting, have to read it now.

For us in the dark side of reading

If you long for a mindfuck

want

Inspired by "world’s first economics and comedy festival." Kinda related topics ;) Book list ought to be good

Review of C. Lily book

Some books to your reading list