Shelf-respect: books you honor with shelf-space but don’t seriously mean to read. What are yours? Especially recent ones.
Usual suspects: Tufte, Knuth, Shakespeare, Rumi, Piketty, Bratton, Wolfram, Bible
It isn’t signaling, anti-library, or aspiration. It’s...idolatry?
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(jk i've read them all and some that aren't there)
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My world famous review/summary of course. I’m probably single-handedly responsible for at least 0.1% of sales of that book
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i don't follow slatestar runner but he did a summary too: slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/boo
also i need to reread your o-g breakout blog post
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7 years after mine so he’s probably responsible for most recent spike in interest
indeed; his reads more like him losing his mind over the content
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