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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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.
I’m genuinely interested in the thesis but it isn’t on any of my critical paths
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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Yeah it's possible I'm misremembering (I read both reviews) but either way, by the time I opened the book I knew most of what it was saying already.
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