Once I recommend a book to 3+ people, I buy it to read myself. After I recommend 5 times I crack it open to familiarize myself with it enough to fake having read it After 7, I feel guilty enough to actually read it, at which point there’s a 50-50 chance I’ll turn against it
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*blush* elephant in the brain, still in my pile somewhere
I’m genuinely interested in the thesis but it isn’t on any of my critical paths
haha, that old thing? you can just keep faking it :P the two books highest on my recommended-but-haven't-read list are Breakdown of Will and Seeing Like a State. wonder if I'll ever get around to reading them....
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You probably don’t need to bother with SlaS, if you read
@slatestarcodex’s review of it you get the entire thesis and only a handful of examples of the same phenomenon rather than hundreds. -
yeah that's why I've been able to get away with not reading it =]. More from Venkat's summary, actually (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/ …), but Scott's was great too.
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