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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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. - 2 more replies
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Read it, it‘s great!
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I’m genuinely interested in the thesis but it isn’t on any of my critical paths