Paul Kedrosky Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
Per BakPaul KedroskyI've had a few people ask for accessible book recs on risk and complexity. Here are some: - How nature works: the science of self-organized criticality, Per Bak - Fooled by randomness / Black Swan / Antifragile, Nassim Taleb - Risk Uncertainty and Profit, Frank Knight #xp
Paperback, 1999
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The Great War and Modern Memory: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Paul FussellPaul Kedrosky"It was novel and therefore labeled an atrocity by a world which ... detests innovations." - Liddel Hart in 1930 on chemical weapons, as quoted in The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), by Paul Fussell
Hardcover, 2000
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyPaul KedroskyA new Cormac McCarthy novel coming out this fall. Been too long: THE PASSENGER | Kirkus Reviews https://t.co/hDx3CjNvjP
Paperback, 2023
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Dispatches
Michael HerrPaul Kedrosky¹ In Michael Herr's classic book about Vietnam, Dispatches, he talks about the effect of this sort of stress: "[W]hen I asked him what had happened [on his night patrol he just looked like he felt sorry for me, fucked if he'd waste time telling stories to anyone dumb as I was."
Paperback, 1991
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Kafka
R. CrumbPaul Kedrosky@qhardy I get it. A legit concern. While talking Crumb, some of my favorite work of his is in his Kafka for Beginners, renamed R. Crumb's Kafka. Unforgettable. https://t.co/oh6GdwYnHg
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Last Chance to See
Douglas AdamsPaul Kedrosky“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” ― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
Paperback, 1992
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Martin FordPaul Kedrosky• The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, Christopher Lasch https://t.co/T1eR7H54BW • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future: Ford, Martin https://t.co/lTRIkO4nun
Paperback, 2016
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. PutnamPaul KedroskyBiked past some tennis courts today, and one court was a guy practicing serving, another was a guy with a ball machine, and a third was someone else practicing service. Like Robert Putnam once wrote, bowling alone, as it were.
Paperback, 2020
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Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Aldo LeopoldPaul KedroskyIt would be better, perhaps, to not notice. "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." -- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Paperback, 2020
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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
Walt BogdanichPaul KedroskyGood review of solid book, but the idea that McKinsey is or should be a "force for good" seems, at best, a straw man. Book Review: “When McKinsey Comes to Town,” by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe https://t.co/fnBYoKSpVm
Paperback, 2023
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