Curated. I’ve heard this book suggested a few times over the years, and feels like it’s a sort of unofficial canon among people studying how preparadigmatic science happens. This review finally compelled me to get the book.
There’s something quite funny in that I discovered this book in January 2022, during the couple of days I spent at Lightcone offices. It was in someone’s office, and I was curious about it. Now, we’re back full circle. ^^
I do think this review would be a lot better if it actually distilled the messy-bits-that-you-need-to-experientially-stew-over into a something that was (probably) much longer than this post, but, much shorter than the book. But that does seem legitimately hard.
Agreed.
But as I said in the post, I think it’s much more important to get the feel from this book than just the big ideas. I believe that there’s a way to write a really good blog post that shares that feel and compresses it, but that was not what I had the intention or energy (or mastery) to write.
There’s something quite funny in that I discovered this book in January 2022, during the couple of days I spent at Lightcone offices. It was in someone’s office, and I was curious about it. Now, we’re back full circle. ^^
Agreed.
But as I said in the post, I think it’s much more important to get the feel from this book than just the big ideas. I believe that there’s a way to write a really good blog post that shares that feel and compresses it, but that was not what I had the intention or energy (or mastery) to write.