Book Review – Page 23 – Failures in Polymathy

Unfu*k Yourself – Gary John Bishop

I decided to see if living by the principles of a self-help book for one calander year would make a difference in my life.

Sometimes things are not as you expect them to be. Pleasantly so.

Hackers: Apparently, not all of them are bad.

And sometimes some books make you think “I’d rather be reading something else.”

A decent vision polluted by very poor execution.

I bet you’ve tossed around words like ‘algorithm’ before, and you’ve not really known what it’s meant.

Daniel Everett’s ‘How Language Began’ might as well be called ‘why Chomsky is wrong.’ It’s also a very compelling argument.

Some books are just so good you want to start reading them a new right as you finish.

Reading ‘City of a Hundred Fires’ mostly brought to my attention how ill-equipped I am to really read poetry intelligibly.

Sometimes persistence pays off in the form of a series you didn’t really like starting to be enjoyable finally.