Intelligence is communal. I asked around, and apparently this makes sense.
read more The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone – Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
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.
read more Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky
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’
Failures in Polymathy 