Over a few months, several friends and people I follow online mentioned how good this book is. One mentioned a specific translator (Robin Buss), so when I found that translation at Half Price Books, I bought it. It took me a few months to summon the will to embark on a 1200+ page novel, but I’m glad I did. Here are passages …
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I feel pretty curmudgeonly this year. This book mostly annoyed me. Science is the way, the truth, and the life for this author.
“We refuse to let our ideas become ideaologies. We don’t start with answers or solutions. We lead with questions or puzzles. We don’t preach from intuituin; we teach from evidence… We dare to …
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Meh.
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In the Tim Ferris interview with Jim Collins, they talked at length about Peter Drucker, mentioning that he wrote some large number of books (14?) after the age of 75… or something like that. Then, I went to Half Price and came across this book. It’s very short, only 55 small pages. I like occasionally reading things like …
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Bart loaned me thins. It was published in 1884 and is still quite relevant.
A child has immaturity and ignorance. We address these with training and teaching.
Communicating truths is not just a transmission of facts. Help reproduce the experience of realization, comprehension. When both teacher and student have had that …
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I needed a quick win, and this was perfect. Very funny. The author borrowed from religion (the main characters are angels and God) without disrespecting it, which is a fine line that I appreciated. Lots of sillyness, e.g., God’s favorite band is Lynard Skynard and He’s always trying to get the angels to get them back together.
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Like Boone, this book was recommended by Steven Rinella on the Tim Ferris podcast. I decided to read it this year to learn more about Custer, since we were taking a family vacation to Yellowstone that would pass through the part of the country where he died.
When Connell was researching this book, he drove many times to the …
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I read this start to finish on a plane trip to Utah for work.
“The course of life cannot change. Nature has but a single path and you travel it only once. Each stage of life has its own appropriate qualities—weakness in childhood, boldness in youth, seriousness in middle age, and maturity in old age. These are fruits that must be …
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Matthew Clarke was struck by lightning and mystically filled with special knowledge. He becomes obsessed with truth he knows but cannot prove – that the town he lives in, Onamata, Iowa, used to be called Big Inning. And it was the home of a farm league baseball team, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. And they once played the …
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We listened to this on the way back from Montana and enjoyed it.
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