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Online: Marginal Revolution, Kottke.org, and Cool Tools (by Kevin Kelly, here).

Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

You’re a Developer Now

Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Firth had just begun to study programming, but the error was “just obvious” to him. Remembering this incident years later, Firth said that the engineer had probably been “programming by rote. He wanted to make his program look like programs he’d seen before, and that clearly wasn’t gonna work.” Firth always tried to avoid such an approach. “I like

Tracy Kidder • The Soul of A New Machine

George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

A good book that would help us is Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. It should be the online behavior bible of the 21st century. We all use media 24/7 but most of us have never truly studied it.

Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Against "Brain Damage"

oneusefulthing.org

But now, when my brain spontaneously forms a tiny sliver of a potentially interesting concept or idea, I can just shove a few sloppy words into a prompt and almost instantly get a fully reasoned, researched, and completed thought. Minimal organic thinking required. This has had a dramatic and profound effect on my brain. My thinking systems have at... See more

Dustin Curtis on Svbtle • Thoughts on Thinking

Douglas R. Hofstadter, whose ten-year-old Gödel, Escher, Bach shows few signs of fatigue. Several years ago the Club, not even blinking at the title, offered his Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, which ponders such imponderables as the nature of human creativity and the limits of artificial intelligence.