Non-Fiction – Page 5 – Failures in Polymathy

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, translated by Gregory Hays

I am proud to be a skeptic of very old books. Many of them are, despite their reputation, a bit silly.

It is a book. About the book. Not ‘books’, but about the book itself. As in the technology.

Reading is hard, sometimes you try and fail.

Here is a book with some hard truths that no one wants to hear.

I am pretty happy to be reading a book of Pinker’s that was written well before he went out to

A published book of thoughts. Seems courageous to me.

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

Like Harari’s other book, yea it was alright.

This book gave me some pause. Not too long ago, I moaned about how annoyed I am at the over

We live in a world that gets scarier the more you learn about it. It also gets more interesting.