Clive Thompson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Clive Thompson

"How Your Desk Helps You Think" -- or, how "situated cognition" might help explain whether you prefer working at home or in an office: https://clivethompson.medium.com/how-your-desk-helps-you-think-21da2ea2fb14 My essay on this, prompted by reading @anniemurphypaul's terrific new book "The Extended Mind"

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Holy moses this @nytmag profile of Jenny Offill, author of the new novel “Weather”, is *amazing*, and her exploration of life during climate change sounds awesome — ordering the book now: https://t.co/VljwkQL0ve (Profile by @parul_sehgal)

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Here are all the questions from Oscar Wilde's essay "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" Generated using the web tool I made, "Only The Questions": https://t.co/i8FsoFOqRE https://t.co/OEe3RZYMPg

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Here are all the questions from Oscar Wilde's essay "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" Generated using the web tool I made, "Only The Questions": https://t.co/i8FsoFOqRE https://t.co/OEe3RZYMPg

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You can take a complete collection of Emily Dickinson’s poems … … and open it to a *random page* … … and it’s absolute 🔥, always Here’s two I found randomly just now https://t.co/QLwx5bZIux

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This idea came via Barbara Freese, author of the superb "Coal: A Human History" I interviewed her when I wrote about how Americans initially hated coal as a home fuel, in the early 1800s Why? Because coal stoves were closed: you couldn't see the flames: https://t.co/85o47Gf70t

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Here are all the questions from Oscar Wilde's essay "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" Generated using the web tool I made, "Only The Questions": https://t.co/i8FsoFOqRE https://t.co/OEe3RZYMPg

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@Thoughtfulnz It's like these lines from the final section of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" ... https://t.co/kis60QhzrA

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I fed an AI the iconic first sentences of famous novels ... ... to see what it would autocomplete Here's what it did with Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" See "Moby Dick", "1984", "Invisible man" and more in my essay on it here: https://t.co/CaFyCYjQr1 https://t.co/PfdrNiw3bH

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@markdery I exist to serve! Note-taking is a black art, though. I've been meaning to write an essay about the 16th and 17th-century fights between rival note-taking scholars in Europe about the right way to take notes Ann Blair covered it wonderfully in *Too Much To Know*

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