Essays – Failures in Polymathy

Elogio dell’ignoranza e dell’errore – Gianrico Carofiglio

A slim volume that helps you understand how to be a little smarter in the world.

Umberto Eco is my comfort food. I hold him in a kind of ‘do no wrong’ place in my head

20 year old me would have enjoyed this a lot more than me now.

This is an excellent book on counter-apologetics. It is, however, the last book on the subject I may ever read.

Oliver Sacks books are always interesting, but there is little new to say about one versus another.

The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads

Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.

Oliver Sacks’ “An Anthropologist on Mars” handles a terrifying subject matter in a way that is nothing but fascinating.

Are all interpretations created equal? Some would say so, and some would test the idea further.

You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut