Skip to content

Failures in Polymathy

– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

Read more

Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

January 16, 2026March 8, 2025

Universal Love – Alexander Weinstein

The best short story collection I have read in some time. Probably since that last one I read by this same author.

read more Universal Love – Alexander Weinstein

Read more

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

January 9, 2026November 4, 2025

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World – Parmy Olson

Parmy Olson is talented, but not even she can make the AI race interesting to me.

read more Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World – Parmy Olson

Read more

Uncategorized  0 Comments

January 2, 2026November 4, 2025

DNF’s of 2025

All the books from 2025 that made me say ‘Fuck it, life is too short”

read more DNF’s of 2025

Read more

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

December 26, 2025November 4, 2025

The Spinoza Problem – Irvin D Yalom

A novel that explores the strange relationship between the Nazi’s and Baruch Spinoza

read more The Spinoza Problem – Irvin D Yalom

Read more

Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

December 19, 2025November 4, 2025

A for Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World – David Kushner and Koren Shadmi

A short primer on Anonymous in graphic novel form

read more A for Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World – David Kushner and Koren Shadmi

Read more

Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

December 12, 2025November 4, 2025

Starter Villain: Anti-Hero in Training – John Scalzi

A novel about a person who isn’t a supervillain, and isnt much aspiring to be one either.

read more Starter Villain: Anti-Hero in Training – John Scalzi

Read more

Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Schlock, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

December 5, 2025October 28, 2025

Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth – Robin Hanson

A waste of time which you shouldnt read

read more Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth – Robin Hanson

Read more

Fiction, Science-Fiction  3 Comments

November 28, 2025February 9, 2025

Dark Matter – Blake Crouch

An easy read that made me get back into reading a little bit. An interesting-ish take on the ‘what if things had shaken out differently’ genre.

read more Dark Matter – Blake Crouch

Read more

Non-Fiction  4 Comments

November 21, 2025October 18, 2025

How the World Really Works – Vaclav Smil

We are oil dependent. That is all

read more How the World Really Works – Vaclav Smil

Read more

Uncategorized  0 Comments

November 14, 2025October 18, 2025

The Dog Walker – R A Stone

A Contemporary Male Fiction Novel. Apparently that matters

read more The Dog Walker – R A Stone

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Failures in Polymathy
    • Join 174 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Failures in Polymathy
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...