Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy, Nicholas Day (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). All you really need to know about me, demographically, is that a couple of times a year someone I know will say, “Hey, we’re expecting our first baby! What books should we read?”| www.thepsmiths.com
Aristocratic tutoring III: The day-to-day practices| www.theintrinsicperspective.com
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, Seymour Papert (Basic Books, 1980). I go to some effort to teach my kids math at home, to the point that they’re generally a year or two ahead of whatever’s happening at school. Most of my reasons are personal and idiosyncratic: I like math, and it’s fun to share my hobbies with my kids. I also despise the way math is usually taught, and want their first encounter with certain beautiful ideas not to be ruined by a teacher who doesn't ...| www.thepsmiths.com
The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon (trans.| www.thepsmiths.com
South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since The End Of Apartheid, R.W.| www.thepsmiths.com
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (New York Review of Books, 2021). Have you ever sat and stared at the sea? If you’ve been near it, then I’m sure you have. As soon as it hoves into view, our eyes are drawn ineluctably up to that far horizon, that endless undulating plain. Coast-dwelling cultures around the earth have stories and legends about the ocean’s strange magnetism, like some eldritch vista that once beheld deepens and ages the soul, but stare too long and...| www.thepsmiths.com
The Variational Principles of Mechanics, Cornelius Lanczos (University of Toronto Press, 1949).| www.thepsmiths.com
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe Press, 2023).| www.thepsmiths.com