Not updated since 2022
in-progress
i realised how much I missed learning to hack with an entirely new toolkit. molecular bio felt like the perfect fit. 2 feb 2022 came across a website for buying biohacking equipment and they recommended 6 chapters of this book. 2 feb 2022 on a related note, i’m going to start twitch streaming experiments when i’m done with the chapters. 2 feb 2022
recently-completed
highly recommend it for anyone interested in a concise introduction to the evolution of political-economic theory. timeline: Smith to Schumpeter. also, reading this book was part of a higher-order process of developing a personal pedagogical process. it currently looks something like this:
read a historical overview of a subject; learn about the people as well as the ideas get a highly recommended university introductory textbook on the topic to get the fundamentals find more specialised/niche texts i'm on step ii after many years of reading mostly pop-econ. this is in line with a greater trend of seeking more formal Truth. 1 may 2021
I ignored this for some time because I thought I had already read a lot of PG from his blog. 19 jun 2021 particularly liked the chapter on spam filters :-) 19 jun 2021 I found this had quite a varied reception. 20 jul 2021 I happen to be enjoying it thus far, let's see how long it lasts in the in-progress section. 28 jul 2021 the only way I could get through this in meaningful time is by switching to the audible on 1.7x 4 aug 2021 just completed. it did serve its purpose as a broad overview of ideas. I found I was less interested in some philosophical eras than others, so I occasionally zoned out a bit. in all, it provided a great start for further analysis. 10 oct 2021
recently-shelved
considered a canonical introductory text for econ. very accessible. 6 april 2021 particularly like the policy case study discussions. 6 april 2021 read enough of the foundational chapters, I’ll go back to using as a reference or narrow dive. 4 jan 2022 I first came across this in a tyler cowen blog post, and it kept coming up in scientific progress discussions. 11 sept 2021 don't think it was the right time for me, but will definitely revisit. 22 oct 2021 Wasn’t a big fan of the conference-transcript format, but is definitely worth returning to later. 21 feb 2022
revisiting uni math, but this time a bit more formally. 14 jan 2021 I only intend to cover the first 15 and last 2 chapters for now. 14 jan 2021 got distracted midway through linear algebra. i’ll definitely return to and continue to use as a reference 11 jan 2022
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