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I chew the cud on asking for headcount for your team. What do you think? https://open.substack.com/pub/ashwinbaskaran/p/you-need-headcount-yawn-so-does-everyone?r=agchi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Common enough there’s a word for it 😀 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
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Why I picked up the book: https://josephnoelwalker.com/149-peter-turchin/
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Starting the (book) year with End Times (no pun intended). Fascinating analysis of historical trends. The content is much more sober than the clickbaity title! https://bookshop.org/p/books/end-times-elites-counter-elites-and-the-path-of-political-disintegration/18850152
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He also really humble and willing to explain and debate. Haven’t read his books but I’ve heard him interviewed a couple of times including here: https://josephnoelwalker.com/139-david-deutsch/
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What kind of fiction did you once enjoy?
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Something from Ted Chiang for its timelessness, or Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future for its being so right… (or so wrong, I guess)
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver… and maybe End Times by Peter Turchin
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My reaction exactly
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Also this was fantastic — Hamnet https://a.co/d/iSI6kQX
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Maybe take a look at The Great Passion https://a.co/d/6z5z2GC
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William Dalrymple, The Anarchy.
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I’ve recently pivoted hard back (pun intended) to physical books. Just the whole experience is different - and superior- for me, caveat of course being you can’t highlight etc. as easily.
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For starters, pretty much anything by Ted Chiang is fantastic.
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It’s been 20+ years so I don’t remember the book. I do remember how highly it was recommended to me and how I tried - and sadly failed - to “get” it!
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Maybe finally someone (or something?) can explain Foucault’s Pendulum to me!
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Recommended. Probably quite dated in AI terms but the concept is generally interesting even outside of tech IMO.
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Tested and approved ✅ Not that anything by Mozart could be a "guilty" pleasure really, but I'm guessing you mean The Turkish March? Its a bit of the odd one out on this playlist.
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