Considering most of my favorite books are the result of mentions in comment threads here, I’d say a book recommendation thread is in order.
Tangental, but I remember “Logic of Failure” to be mostly being mental phenomena I was already familiar with, and generalizations from computer experiments that I didn’t find particularly compelling. I’ll have to give it another look.
I liked the section near the beginning about the various ways of being bad at optimizing complex computer scenarios. It was a tidy description of the ways people think too little about what they’re doing and/or overfocus on the wrong things.
Part of my enjoyment was seeing those matters described so compactly, and part of it was the emotional tone which combined a realization that this is a serious problem with a total lack of gloating over other people’s idiocy. That last may indicate that I’ve been spending too much time online.
If you didn’t notice anything new to you in the book the first time, there may not be a good reason for you to reread it.
Considering most of my favorite books are the result of mentions in comment threads here, I’d say a book recommendation thread is in order.
Tangental, but I remember “Logic of Failure” to be mostly being mental phenomena I was already familiar with, and generalizations from computer experiments that I didn’t find particularly compelling. I’ll have to give it another look.
I liked the section near the beginning about the various ways of being bad at optimizing complex computer scenarios. It was a tidy description of the ways people think too little about what they’re doing and/or overfocus on the wrong things.
Part of my enjoyment was seeing those matters described so compactly, and part of it was the emotional tone which combined a realization that this is a serious problem with a total lack of gloating over other people’s idiocy. That last may indicate that I’ve been spending too much time online.
If you didn’t notice anything new to you in the book the first time, there may not be a good reason for you to reread it.