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Isaac’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Isaac’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Isaac Lyman
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Your First Year in Code
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2019
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2 editions
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This book spends so much time reinterpreting itself, in the most abstract and cerebral way, that you might say “but what about psychedelic trips?” or “but what about breasts?” Don’t worry, there’s plenty of those. I sometimes complain about science fi ...more |
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Never have I been so annoyed by a book that gets so much right. Alternately, never have I been so enlightened and improved by a book so full of garbage. 50% of this book is spot-on advice that will immediately improve your writing. The other 50% is un ...more |
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| The stories are good and competent, of course, but the autobiographical bits might be even more interesting. They’re a window into the time period, when sexual and racial dynamics were breaking new ground all the time; into the sci-fi industry, which ...more | |
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
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“In an age of instrumentalization, the hobbyist is a subversive: he insists that some things are worth doing for themselves alone, despite offering no payoffs in terms of productivity or profit. The derision we heap upon the avid stamp collector or train spotter might really be a kind of defense mechanism, to spare us from confronting the possibility that they’re truly happy in a way that the rest of us—pursuing our telic lives, ceaselessly in search of future fulfillment—are not. This also helps explain why it’s far less embarrassing (indeed, positively fashionable) to have a “side hustle,” a hobbylike activity explicitly pursued with profit in mind.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
