Jef Allbright

Some #FavoriteBooks

#NonFiction

1979 - Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach_ An Eternal Golden Braid

1974 - Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values

2001 - Wright - Nonzero_ The Logic of Human Destiny

1975 - Fuller & Applewhite - Synergetics Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

1998 - Norretranders - The User Illusion_ Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

1966 - Watts - The book_ on the taboo against knowing who you are

1997 - Cziko - Without Miracles

Nov 27, 2022 at 4:52pmWeb
Show threadPeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦Mar 8, 2023
@jef Read Hofstadter, Pirsig, I am still puzzled about that one. Wright - Nonzero - Good. And Watts.
Have a go at Eric Beinhocker's Wealth https://www.amazon.ca/Origin-Wealth-Remaking-Economics-Business/dp/1422121038
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Show threadJef AllbrightMar 8, 2023

@peterdeppisch

Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the only book I've read twice—first when about 18, and again in my late twenties. The first time I found it fascinating. The second time mostly confirming of my own perspective.

I've added Eric D. Beinhocker - Origin of Wealth_ Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics-Harvard Business School Press (2006) to my reading list. I see there is a 2018 version too…

Thanks!