@danwwang I'll take a look. Dyson is one of the great treasures of the world. I think this even when - especially when! - I disagree w/him
Wonderfully stimulating, unsurprisingly: Freeman Dyson's book recommendations http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/19bkr-bythebook_dyson.t.html …
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@danwwang I just read "The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet". Not his best work, but still much better than a random book.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danwwang It's more than a decade since I read it, but I remember enjoying "From Eros to Gaia" quite a bit.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danwwang I do tend to think that Dyson's natural forte is the essay or interview. He has these lovely insights that can be developed 1/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danwwang in hundreds or thousands of words. He seems less into the large-scale architecture of a book. 2/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danwwang With that said, if you treat his books as series of essays, they're great. 3/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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