Andy Matuschak Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Andy Matuschak

In 1907, William James complains that psychologists have ignored the topic of "the energies of men"—that is, the practical stamina available for "running one's mental and moral operations". Have good frameworks emerged for this in the past century? https://t.co/itsn1DGVUc https://t.co/QGGwkPBAz5

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Helplessly devoured "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. Maybe even nerdier than the Martian—implausible, silly, whatever, but infectiously fun. Makes me wish I'd had more Fermi problem solving in my life as a kid.

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🙏 Looking for volunteers to try an augmented book prototype tomorrow, remotely by video call. You’ll be reading an excerpt from Shape Up, a book about product management. The prototype adds a memory system to (hopefully) make it easier for you to internalize the material.

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@devonbrackbill @rivatez One of Turing's biographers, Andrew Hodges, mentions that Turing had read Rhine's work: https://t.co/XprU7UUBWZ

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The interstates! "The Big Roads" by Earl Swift is an excellent member of the "big mid-century project" book genre: bold individuals doing impossible things very quickly; scenius; optimism—and, yes, some of the disastrous consequences of same. (h/t @collision, @timhwang, @mntbkr) https://t.co/qzvcHtu0Sh

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This from Jonathan Sacks nicely captures a piece of it for me: "In essence, spirituality is what happens when we open ourselves to something greater than ourselves." https://t.co/oNLpA6aEZI (via Luke Burgis's "Wanting")

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In high school, we were assigned to compare Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad to Fagles et al, but I really missed out by skipping Pope's foreword—all the eighteenth century 🔥 dunks on his predecessors!! https://t.co/0T4QTr1MfV

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Everything's almost always better when I attend to process itself, rather than outcomes. (I can somehow never remind myself enough…) Lovely reflections on this in Matthew Frederick's "101 things I learned in architecture school" (via @mollyfmielke): https://t.co/miOtWh6bY8 https://t.co/wxXueFXUQP

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