Eight Books To Read | Samo Burja
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
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Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
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In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
The historian and biographer extends this backwards in time. Now youth find models of honor not only among the living but among dead. To study the great men of a community’s past is to study what greatness means in that community. That I think is half the purpose of these biographies of Roosevelt and Rockefeller, Feynman and Oppenheimer, Licklider ... See more
T. Greer • The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom. [8]