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A second Dirac, but human. An incredible life and person (and book).

This was a great follow up to The Geography of Nowhere, which I read many years ago and has influenced how I think about cities. I hope more Americans learn about roads, streets, and stroads and advocate for better infrastructure.

This is the kind of topic that deserves the prestige of a book but where the ideas can fit in a blog post without losing anything important. Here, the length and examples are worthwhile. The show the scope of the problem in a way that is both interesting and enraging.

The bomb is used halfway through this book and the rest is about the tragedy of the McCarthy era. It includes a play-by-play of terrible moments in anti-communist fear mongering. It's worthwhile history though not nearly as interesting as the complexities of Oppenheimer's success in leading scientists with competing egos under immense pressure.

Good summary of how we got to this point and how the Supreme Court is delegitimizing itself. And finishes with good solutions. There’s a seemingly infinite list of blood boiling developments these days, but this is an important one.

If you have ever been unsatisfied by the idea that we don’t know what happened before the Big Bang or that it somehow doesn’t matter, you’ll enjoy this.

It lived up to expectations. It’s the guide to kickstarting a startup’s marketing from any plateau, but especially for the first customers. The platforms referenced are getting stale the but ideas seem solid. I can see why so many recommend it.

Filled with dazzling prose but not in the sense that you need a dictionary, except to understand 16th century fashion. I am fascinated by the idea that the premise here is that an author can surprise and delight in plain English about that language’s most famous writer.

And pointers to what the US in particular needs to move socialism forward. It’s a nice complement to Politics is for Power, which I recommend more.

Much better than I expected. Thunberg is the editor, not the only voice in the book. It’s a lot of experts on each part of the story. It is filled with big truth bombs.

There’s a lot in here that’s terrifying and upsetting. It is also motivating. A goal of the book (and of Greta’s) is to convince people not to look away and it is working on me.

I wanted more action, less blockchain.

Weirdly timely. There are so many reasons to question capitalism. And we all “know” communism isn’t better. Can’t work. But why? Why not? I already want to reread this.

I did not know it was possible to laugh and cry at the same for so long. This book is as heavy and difficult as you think it might be. I loved it.