What did you read this year?
Erik’s
average rating for
2023
3.0
liked it
3.0
So… a bit dumb.
One of my biggest pet-peeves – which I’ve heard at least once a week for the past decade of my life - is when someone draws the wrong conclusion and says, “Oh I really overthought that one.” You… overthought it? You made a mistake because you thought too deeply about it?
Unless your name is David Foster Wallace or Socrates, it seems unlikely. So here’s what actually happened: You thought poorly, and that is why you were mistaken.
Wel ...more
One of my biggest pet-peeves – which I’ve heard at least once a week for the past decade of my life - is when someone draws the wrong conclusion and says, “Oh I really overthought that one.” You… overthought it? You made a mistake because you thought too deeply about it?
Unless your name is David Foster Wallace or Socrates, it seems unlikely. So here’s what actually happened: You thought poorly, and that is why you were mistaken.
Wel ...more
So Covid led me to an interesting epiphany, what I call the Scalar Edge (or others call the ‘Tyranny of Scales problem’) because I like fancy-sounding names: That there exists a fundamental conflict between the macroscopic ‘freedom’ and microscopic ‘freedom’ within a given system. Which… read the intro to my Leviathan Falls review.
Well, after recently reading a cyberpunk pairing - the rather lackluster Shockwave Rider and this much more excellent ...more
Well, after recently reading a cyberpunk pairing - the rather lackluster Shockwave Rider and this much more excellent ...more