Venkatesh Rao@vgrThis is fascinating, the extent to which ideology books dominate the top of the listQuote Tweettimoreilly@timoreilly·Jan 27, 2016Open Syllabus Project: 1M Syllabi from Universities Reveal the 100 Most Frequently-Taught Books http://openculture.com/2016/01/the-open-syllabus-project-gathers-1000000-syllabi-from-universities.html… via @openculture5:26 AM · Jan 27, 201619 Retweets44 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @pmarca@pmarca Understanding Comics and Neuromancer are where it starts to actually get relevant113
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @trekonomics@trekonomics @pmarca I've read 2. Gatsby and Huck Finn. The rest by reputation, quotation, osmosis, and zeitgeist only. Not a paleomaniac.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @trekonomics@trekonomics oh I've read that, so 3/50 for me 😀
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @trekonomics@trekonomics hmm would be interesting to see cluster patterns in the long tail1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @trekonomics@trekonomics also remember that Harvard including a book on its syllabus is 1000x more significant than Podunk community college.
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @trekonomics@trekonomics I'd like to weight by school ranking or better still, alumni share of societal leadership positions
nike AGP@taangmula·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr also doesn't seem to clarify what position is taken in relation to the content
Chris Reid@careid0·Jan 27, 2016Replying to @pmarca@pmarca @vgr Eh, could bet on waning too? Compare to Montesquieu for 18c USA- big init influence on 20c institutions, but drift and time...1