Now I need a list of such book. :)
The best books have a point you wouldn't even understand before you read it. Unfortunately such books are hard to market.
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When I think about it more I don't have a lot of good examples besides The Nature of Order and Gödel, Escher, Bach... maybe Richard Powers's The Gold-Bug Variations or The Selfish Gene, Unsong or Adrian Bejan's Design in Nature. ->
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Essays and blog posts that both introduce concepts and make points using them is maybe part of what made me think it, but it's probably mostly a reaction against its opposite: I lack interest in books whose point I feel I get without reading them.
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I really ought to be better at examples but once I generalize an idea the examples seem to just far away from memory. Maybe I shouldn't trust myself bc my mind is full of simulacra...
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Example?
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I just finished the first volume of Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order. His writing is frustratingly long-winded but his ideas are fascinating.
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what are a few differences in your thinking before/after?
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I now apply his notion of a field of centers forming wholeness on various forms of art and objects.
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Novels sell pretty well
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I often find that novels are bad at transmitting interesting thoughts. They more hint at them, which makes it hard to communicate anything complex. And low word-to-thought ratio tends to bore me.
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Behave by Robert Sapolsky
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Not to put too fine a point on it - isn't this the point of ("real") education? To teach you things you don't yet understand?
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Which books did you get this from? Very curious
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