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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.
Isaac Lyman’s Followers (7)
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Isaac Lyman
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October 2008
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https://www.goodreads.com/isaaclyman
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Your First Year in Code
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2019
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2 editions
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| The homage is faithful, and maybe it should’ve been less faithful, and maybe it would’ve sold the setting better if it were. But the characters were complete and human, and in the end they named parts of me that I’ve never seen on paper, and I am sat ...more | |
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| The best thing I’ve read in a long time. I only wish I could forget so I could read it all again for the first time. | |
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Smart, inventive, relevant, tightly constructed. A page-turner that always knows exactly where it’s going, and a satire that never feels moralistic. The writing style smells a little like fanfiction—way too many adjectives, too much admiration for the ...more |
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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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“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
