Food for Thought
An interesting compendium of thought-provoking
and/or enlightening articles, references, pointers, and anecdotes (that clearly, from the
titles below, don't have the slightest to do with one another). Might be of interest only
to me, but who knows? Where materials are not mine, credit is
noted. Please don't sue me or repost it without crediting the original
authors.
- Bruce Schneier, Rare Risk and Overreactions. A really good article that puts the kind of worries that bother most of us (myself included) into perspective.
- Paul Graham, What You Can't Say
- Neal Stephenson on the relationship between readers and authors, why it's a often a disappointment to meet an author in a personal setting (Professors are often the same!), and Why I am [why he is, but with a few epic exceptions, why yours truly is as well] a bad correspondent
- Reflections on a Mote of Dust
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September 11, me
Some of Donna Britt's thoughts on how we raise our children. Side point: I used to have a link to her page at the Washington Post, but I refuse to post links that require registration to follow - take a note, all it's going to do is make me fill in false information, which is useless to the registrar anyway. And you can argue that it helps advertising revenues - but once everybody starts doing this, the playing field is back to even.
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Some thoughts by the same author on The importance of kindness. One of the main features perennially stuck on my office door
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Living Well, Living Good, Maya Angelou
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Death, God, and Santa Claus, Michael Finley
- Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, William Denton
