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actual Wednesday here reading
Sep. 18th, 2019 10:15 pmIn progress:
Rich Karlgaard, Late Bloomers; The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement. It's an interesting read, but at the halfway point I'm not sure I'd actually recommend it to someone who's feeling like their opportunities passed them by or they started to figure out what interests them too late; it's making me feel more pessimistic about my chances of achieving things late in life, not less. I'm pretty sure that isn't the author's intention, and we'll see what I think when I've finished it, but right now it seems to be more of a framing-the-problem book than a solutions book.
George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square. I've read it, but that was at least 35 years ago, and I don't remember the details other than that there's a mouse, a cat, and a cricket. So far, so good.
Still working on McCullogh, Because Internet, and Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings.
Rich Karlgaard, Late Bloomers; The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement. It's an interesting read, but at the halfway point I'm not sure I'd actually recommend it to someone who's feeling like their opportunities passed them by or they started to figure out what interests them too late; it's making me feel more pessimistic about my chances of achieving things late in life, not less. I'm pretty sure that isn't the author's intention, and we'll see what I think when I've finished it, but right now it seems to be more of a framing-the-problem book than a solutions book.
George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square. I've read it, but that was at least 35 years ago, and I don't remember the details other than that there's a mouse, a cat, and a cricket. So far, so good.
Still working on McCullogh, Because Internet, and Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings.