Book – Page 8 – Failures in Polymathy

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

There is an anecdote about the acclaimed film director Stanley Kubrick that goes as follows: when Kubrick told a friend

I have always had deep seated confidence issues. Most people think it is a bad thing, but on most days

This is another book I had to read for work purposes.

Warhammer is a mess of a story. I kinda love it!

The Economist you love to hate, Varoufakis has lured me back with his latest book.

Two more collections of short stories, reviewed by a person who doesn’t really like short stories.

Claude Shannon is one of the grreat unsung intellectual heroes of the last century.

A very strange, very adult manga

We are all fascinated by aliens, but what can we reasonably expect them to be like?

Sometimes you have a lot of hope for things, and your hope is wasted