#books
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Sweet Nothing : The Gospel According to Frank Bascombe
Richard Ford wraps up the Bascombe saga and leaves the reader with a sense of miracle.
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You Know You’re Old When…
It’s not just that I’m pushing fifty, it’s that I’ve started bragging about my kids and their achievements.
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Politically Depressed
Ehrenfest had a remarkable knack for translating and interpreting the work of giants like Heisenberg, Bohr, and Dirac.
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A Quantum of Feynman in Neal Stephenson’s Polostan
Polostan, like anything from Stephenson’s pen, is an exquisite read.
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Un Verdor Terrible
The trouble with some books is that they’re so good it’s embarrassing to express one’s own views of them.
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Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time
It’s fascinating how books aren’t mere repositories of information. That the order in which you encounter them actually dictates how your understanding evolves.