Type: Reviews
All the posts of type "Reviews".
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Cormac McCarthy's Metaphysical Horror Show
In this last-ditch diptych, your crusty 89-year-old literary grandaddy completely changes tack, holding forth on the biggest philosophical and scientific questions of our age.
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Weaponised Autism as the Font of Human Creativity
What makes humans special? How is it that we are able to unleash the energy of the atom, while our hominid ancestors gather dust in the natural history museum?
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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity
Pound-for-pound The Beginning of Infinity has to be the densest collection of batshit-crazy ideas I've ever come across.
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Digital Minimalism Review: Gazing Into the Abyss
Maybe you have a voice in your head that whispers ‘jump!’ every time you lean over a balcony. I have recurring fantasies of deleting my presence from the Internet and going off the grid.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is Utterly Deranged, and I Love It
Marie Kondo—queen of decluttering, bestselling author, empire-builder—hears voices in her head.
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Self Authoring Review: Sorting Myself Out With Dr Jordan Peterson
Imagine your dad giving you a lecture about life, except your dad is Canadian, has an IQ of ~150, and is voiced by Kermit the Frog. That's Jordan Peterson.
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Living The 4 Hour Work Week (How Tim Ferriss Created a Monster)
The 4HWW's unintended legacy is a groundswell of self-loathing in the digital nomad community. What did Tim get right, and which parts have gone rotten?