It’s elementary …| Janusworx
On Enlightenment and Discovery| Janusworx
image courtesy, Simon & Schuster Paraphrased and excerpted as usual … Thinking is vitally important, but the modern world does not let us … One of the reasons for this situation is that the very media we have mentioned are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appearance). The packaging of intellectual positions and views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reade...| Janusworx
A mathematician is hardly a reasonable person. More like a feral philosopher or a logician gone rogue.| Reading on Janusworx
You’re dead to me, Gaiman.| Reading on Janusworx
Read, read, read, the rest of my life.| Reading on Janusworx
All the Titles from 2024| Reading on Janusworx
Iron Widow, Highlights| Reading on Janusworx
All my highlights and thoughts from Babel| Reading on Janusworx
Short Booklet. Very Taleb–esque writing. Very entertaining. Tells us there are lots of stupid people, with a really precise definition of stupid; those folks that would cut their nose to spite their face, or like the book would say, stupid folks are they who would cause losses to other folks, even when they stand to gain nothing or possibly, ever incur losses! It reads like an erudite rant. But unlike Taleb, ends with no advice or suggestion.| Reading on Janusworx
If I could distill everything that I have learnt about love and attraction and lust and life and persistence and bravery and marriage and children and facing your fears and growing up? If I could do that, it would be this slim book. I stumbled across Cheryl Strayed, in (as usual) a Farnam Street post. And then promptly bought all her books and forgot about reading them. Better late than never though.| Reading on Janusworx
This was the best collection of short stories, I’ve read since O’Henry. No O’Henriesque twists, but fate and life and love deal the characters and us readers, enough drama that none are needed. A couple of lines, that struck me … --- Raymond didn’t like to talk back to his sister, but this time he thought she was wrong to say what she did.| Reading on Janusworx
This little book, had me yelling, “YEA! HELL, YEA!” at every page. The book’s evolved from this really beautiful lament, which is available online and has a newer section titled Exultation. The article has the main thrust of the book and is worth your time. (as is the book, specially if you have kids, or you teach kids, or if you want to shape someone’s thinking about Mathematics) Highlights from the book follow …| Reading on Janusworx
When a book keeps popping up in your radar, from a wide variety of sources, over months, then you just have to go read it. --- via the amazing Ricardo Siri. click the image to see full size.| Reading on Janusworx
If you want to someday make money from your skills and your craft, you owe it to yourself to read this. If you have never read Lucas, you owe it to yourself to read him. Buy Cashflow for Creators! My highlighted notes from the book follow … --- Craft is the nuts and bolts of how you do The Thing. For a writer, it’s stuff like grammar and spelling and reading. For a glass artist, it’s not mixing different COEs or—at the highest levels—how to mix different COEs. Painters need to under...| Reading on Janusworx
This post was first sent to my newsletter on March 7th, 2021. You really ought to subscribe :) --- Before we get into this weeks newsletter, I’d like to take a moment and recognise the loss of my grandmother, who passed away on the 24th, last month. She was a simple, thoughtful and kind woman, who raised a village. I miss her dearly. This was my eulogy to her.| Reading on Janusworx
This post was first sent to my newsletter on December 7th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) The beginning is always today. — Mary Shelley --- The biggest obstacle to ultralearning is simply that most people don’t care enough about their own self-education to get started Finding Time for Ultra learning What matters is the intensity, initiative, and commitment to effective learning, not the particulars of your timetable| Reading on Janusworx
In my youth, I came across the work of Robin Williams. No, not that one. She introduced me to the beauty of CRAP. And the fact that the PC is not a typewriter. But most of all, she introducted me to the beauty of type and design Fonts, and line spacing and kerning and everything else lovely, about the written word. And now if you want all that wisdom distilled, into a short, opinionated, beautiful web series, look no further than Matthew Butterick’s, Practical Typography.| Janusworx
Scratch, scribble, mark and dog ear them!| Janusworx
Avoid long slogs| Reading on Janusworx
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast| Reading on Janusworx
via PRH NZ --- Been listening to Joseph Conrad’s, Heart of Darkness in the little cracks of time in the day1 and as always being led to the sad and inevitable conclusion that we always fail to learn from what came before. It was as unreal as everything else—as the philanthropic pretence of the whole concern, as their talk, as their government, as their show of work. The only real feeling was a desire to get appointed to a trading-post where ivory was to be had, so that they could earn per...| Reading on Janusworx
Some things that struck me, about how I struggle with my reading.| Reading on Janusworx
The Four Levels of Reading| Reading on Janusworx
More! Moaar! Moaaaar!| Reading on Janusworx
The Four Basic Questions!| Janusworx
image courtesy, Simon & Schuster --- A few thoughts on books and how long it takes me to read them, as they relate to what I learned reading this book Reading for joy, is just that. Reading for joy! Nothing needs to come in the way of that. Books can take as long as they need to be read. Comprehension is key. Not how many I finish. I was wondering how so many folks read so many books “better” faster than me. The book assures me that reading books analytically, reading ideas syntopically a...| Janusworx
