Ricardo Mego
@ricardomego
Peruvian lawyer and lifelong learner
Ricardo Mego
"La tiranía del azar" es el último libro de @gomberoff y @joseedelstein. No hay desperdicio en nada de lo que hagan estos dos, pero este libro sobre mecánica cuántica supera las expectaticas incluso sabiendo eso. Es excelente. Cada página, cada anécdota, cada explicación. https://t.co/G13iJqRyll
Is that so bad? Isn't it common for skills to disappear when technology makes them obsolete? There aren't many blacksmiths left, and it doesn't seem to be a problem.
Yes, it's bad. The reason is something I mentioned earlier: writing is thinking. In fact there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing. You can't make this point better
... See morePaul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. “To think,” Borges writes, “is to forget.”
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
In A Primer for Forgetting, scholar and critic Lewis Hyde explores the idea that forgetting can be as useful as remembering—and that, in fact, the two are not opposed but work in concert with each other. This idea sparked for him when he was studying the importance of memory, and in reading about the old oral cultures who passed knowledge through... See more
Haley Nahman • #220: When forgetting is good
De mis libros preferidos de Zweig.
Retrata a estos 3 poetas-filósofos cuyas "vidas paralelas" están atravesadas por lo demoníaco:
«Llamaré demoníaca a esa inquietud innata, y esencial a todo hombre, que lo separa de sí mismo y lo arrastra hacia lo infinito, hacia lo elemental.» https://t.co/tp4IegvnjH
Tan demencial es pretender que el Estado desaparezca como pensar que deba ser el centro de nuestras vidas y resolverlo todo. En este libro, Acemoglu y Robinson, ganadores del Nobel de Economía, consideran que cada país y cada momento exigen combinaciones distintas: https://t.co/ZMY6bPkSsW