David’s Reviews > What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative > Status Update
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Good intro from author's personal life, then exposition of Barbara McClintock, geneticist, & Grace Hopper, computer ... advocate? Mathematician turned computer scientist?
— Jun 30, 2026 07:00PM
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David
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Nice chapter on "simplex stepping" but it was hard to read about the Washington Post becoming a great paper when it has fallen so far controlled by Bezos.
— Jul 08, 2026 02:41PM
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Just finished the chapter about "the fog," now on to simplex stepping to find the way out.
— Jul 05, 2026 06:40PM