Julian

To make more of the books I've read and remember them better, I've started to keep notes while reading. I mostly follow the procedure outlined on Farnam Streetcache, but realized that realized that publicly posting my notes forces me to put a bit more thought into them. So here we go!

The main point of the book is that we humans are incredibly bad at dealing with probability, our only hope is to acknowledge our weakness and work around it. According to Taleb, the core generator of these ideas:

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

The book is mostly a collection of thoughts that are all related to randomness, in my summary I mostly try to follow the original ordering.

Read the rest at http://www.furida.mu/blog/2014/08/10/reading-fooled-by-randomness/

Four riveting short stories putting a spotlight on dark corners of our society, and how they might play out in the future.

A bit too dry and verbose.

It's astonishing how much our brains are able to adapt, even to seemingly impossible situations. Even more so since it seems possible to take advantage of that malleability with simple exercises. This book is most definitely worth a read, especially if you are interested in psychology or neurology.

An homage to video game culture from the 80s, mixed with a dystopian future. Sadly, it avoids many of the issues it brings up, but it's still a good read.