Cognitive Sciencce – Failures in Polymathy

The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

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

I came into this with a whole lot of hesitation. The problem is that my ‘to-read’ list is now hundred

Intelligence is communal. I asked around, and apparently this makes sense.

Some books you just have to return to in order to fully grasp them. This one will need a ”round 3” from me.

This book felt like the first PhD literature review I ever gave a shit about.

There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.

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

There is a very little I can say about this short of ‘please go read it’