On the internet, I read LW, the New York Times, and a Google feed of blogs. (Mostly math—Terence Tao, Nuit Blanche, etc. -- but also Will Wilkinson and The American Scene on the political end, and The Geomblog for theoretical computer science.) When I need a cheerful pick-me-up I read BoingBoing. When I procrastinate I binge on The Atlantic or Yglesias or Reason, you know, the usual players in the news and commentary universe.
For school I read the predictable array of math textbooks. Most recently Caratheodory’s book on conformal maps.
For pleasure reading—normally I’m a literature person, but most recently I’ve just been going through Neal Stephenson books.
What’s on my desk? Not a lot. File folders of papers, kleenex, desk lamp, notebook. My work (or “work”) life is not very paper-intensive. My inbox? Now that’s a mess.
(I think I get what you’re trying to convey—I have a separate “Evasion” fiction ebook folder myself—but Stephenson doesn’t seem bad or shallow enough to me to deserve getting demoted that way)
What do I read?
On the internet, I read LW, the New York Times, and a Google feed of blogs. (Mostly math—Terence Tao, Nuit Blanche, etc. -- but also Will Wilkinson and The American Scene on the political end, and The Geomblog for theoretical computer science.) When I need a cheerful pick-me-up I read BoingBoing. When I procrastinate I binge on The Atlantic or Yglesias or Reason, you know, the usual players in the news and commentary universe.
For school I read the predictable array of math textbooks. Most recently Caratheodory’s book on conformal maps.
For pleasure reading—normally I’m a literature person, but most recently I’ve just been going through Neal Stephenson books.
What’s on my desk? Not a lot. File folders of papers, kleenex, desk lamp, notebook. My work (or “work”) life is not very paper-intensive. My inbox? Now that’s a mess.
Can you unpack that etc.? I really enjoy Terence Tao’s blog and would appreciate finding similar blogs.
Here’s a list of math blogs. I don’t read all of these myself, of course. What I actually try to keep up with, apart from Tao’s blog:
Nuit Blanche, the blog of Igor Carron, which is about compressed sensing.
ChapterZero, written by a graduate student, mostly about random matrix theory.
Quomocodumque, written by Jordan Ellenberg, about nearly everything.
Three-Toed Sloth by Cosma Shalizi, who’s a statistician, about statistics and lots of other subjects.
Here’s a list of math blogs. I don’t read all of these myself, of course. What I actually try to keep up with, apart from Tao’s blog:
Nuit Blanche, the blog of Igor Carron, which is about compressed sensing.
ChapterZero, written by a graduate student, mostly about random matrix theory.
Quomocodumque, written by Jordan Ellenberg, about nearly everything.
Three-Toed Sloth by Cosma Shalizi, who’s a statistician, about statistics and lots of other subjects.
Neal Stephenson isn’t literature?
(I think I get what you’re trying to convey—I have a separate “Evasion” fiction ebook folder myself—but Stephenson doesn’t seem bad or shallow enough to me to deserve getting demoted that way)
Neal Stephenson self-identifies as a non-literature writer