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This really has been a fascinating book. Whether you look at the human body from a structural, mechanical, electrical, or computer science engineering perspective, it's just mind-blowing the complexity & genius of the design.

Some overlap in some of the essays, but all good reminders of the timelessness of what Neil Postman wrote 4 decades ago.

Just finished reading about the extraordinarily complex but brilliant design of the human ear. I think people would be more skeptical of evolutionary fairy tales if they understood the immense design inherent in their own body.

It's a really good message for a wealthy, consumer culture to read. Even in this chapter of life where I don't have as much discretionary income as in the past, Burroughs still helps me appreciate all that I do have.

A real gem of a book. Burroughs is insightful in his observations of the human condition & humble & pastoral in his tone, even with 4 centuries separation from us. "Lightly edited" for readability, this is a great series of classic works of the Puritans. This one is especially applicable to those of us living in an affluent culture.

Berlinski applies a razor-sharp wit to the frequently condescending atheists who ironically look down on the religious from positions supported by thin air. His candid (quite blunt) observations of that ungrounded view are refreshingly direct.

Good stuff. A lot that should probably be obvious, but like most obvious, common sense observations, it takes someone pointing them out before we really see them, I suppose.

Really fascinating deep dive into the systems engineering of the human body.

I like that Cal offers several variants of deep work routines.

What can I say? I am that knowledge worker with attention fragmented by a thousand distractions, struggling to focus, frustrated by lack of progress on anything, to whom Cal is writing. The rare times that I have felt like I really accomplished something useful were exactly what Cal calls deep work. But they're never consistent. So Cal's already convinced me of the book's main premise. Now to implement.

Hardly surprising, I suppose, that an engineer would immensely enjoy reading about the amazing design of the human body, but I'll just state clearly that I am loving this! I knew the human body was incredibly well-designed, but the half had not been told! Fascinating book so far.

Started this once & made it to p. 84 but never finished. It had been a while & I'm still struggling with lack of productivity, so I just started over again & am up to p. 120 now. Don't know if his system will help or not, but he's certainly diagnosing everything plaguing me pretty accurately. He's an engaging writer, humorous, & often able to turn a memorable phrase.