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Can’t seem to get into the disjointed story that seems to be full of mundane things. 🤷‍♂️

“In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a career with a vision will get you a distance proportional to n, while no vision will get you only the distance. In a sense, the main difference between those
who go far and those who do not is some people have a vision and the others do not and therefore can only react to the current events as they happen.”

Couldn’t

“Truffles must be potent enough for their scent to penetrate the layers of soil and enter the air, distinctive enough for an animal to take note amid the ancient smellscape, and delicious enough for that animal to seek it out, dig it up, and eat it.”

Fascinating book full of marvelous facts but I’m not drawn to fungi enough to power through.

3/5 at best, the essays are written like a “chicken soup for the teenage soul” book with not enough substance to get me to finish it.

A bit too scholarly and dry to keep my attention.

“over time, by monitoring your redstone, the AI could even determine thr ideal level of randomness that will optimize exploration while avoiding annoyance, perhaps lowering its serendipity level to 3% or raising it to 8%.”

Couldn’t finish the book, too anecdote'y for my taste.

Not interesting enough for me to finish the whole book, basically filled with just lots of facts that get boring after a while.

This reads like an MBA text book, going to put it down for now.

Couldn't get into the story

Going to throw in the towel, had a hard time keeping my attention.

Bleh, calling it quits for now