Why scientists should read more
The amount of communicative effort to describe the fact of a ball being thrown is vanishingly low. It's as simple as saying, "X threw the ball." It takes a bit more effort to describe ho…
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The weekly linklist – July 25, 2020
I've decided to publish this linklist via Substack. Next weekend onwards, it will only be available on https://linklist.substack.com. And this is why the list exists and what kind of articles you…
Happy Lord of the Rings Day!
The Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series exhibited a rabid yet desirable iconoclasm, through which its author Steven Erikson elucidated every trope of epic fantasy and then shit on it. I came out…
Happy Lord of the Rings Day
On this day, let's read a chapter or two from the trilogy and remember what an enlightening experience reading the books was.…
A book on the Otherside
I walked into the bookshop. The first row of books had a label on it saying 'Recommended'. I never touched those books. They were always too mainstream, and populism never read well. Instead,…
Lord of the Rings Day
March 25 is Lord of the Rings Day. Why do I remember the date?…