Steempress seems to be down right now. If it doesn't fix itself I might not get daily updates done for a bit because I'm lazy about cross-posting and would rather just play catch-up when it works.

This is actually #71. I made an oopsie with the title.

I think that one of the best strengths of something like this in a book format is its ability to just really go into detail. You could read a lot about the relationship between Gygax and Arneson or the

I'm not technically something like a professional historian, though I took a fair amount of history in college. My big gripe with the lack of focus on lay-history or a more academic approach is that it

This was actually for July 14, not July 15.

As someone who read Peterson first (and, in particular, Maps of Meaning), then Jung, I always found it interesting to see how Peterson has developed Jung's ideas. Jung is brilliant, but also revolutionary.

Ah, I haven't had ribs in forever. I'm a little OCD about my hands getting dirty, so I'm the sort of person who eats them with a knife and fork or next to a sink or stack of hand-wipes (I've overcome the

If nothing else, I find that getting enough sleep makes me less of a mess during the day. I went from working 70 hours a week quite frequently my first year teaching to 45 on average my second year, and

My general rule of thumb is to follow Montaigne's rule of thumb: If you don't have a reason to believe something, ignore it. You don't reject things, but you also don't cling to them either. Too much of

I almost thought of talking about Descartes' demon during this, because the ergo cogitat sum is a pretty big and important step in the philosophical development of knowledge. For me, what I find is that

I tend to be skeptical about any particular interpretation of the unknown. Just because I can't see something is neither proof nor disproof of its existence, but the important thing is acknowledging that

One of the theories regarding dreams in general is that they're part of the unconscious reaching out to us. I tend to buy into this, though I'm not certain that it's applicable to every dream. What I've

I can't always manage a deep review without spoiling things, but Ishiguro is so profound that it's easy. He's a master of his craft, and it shows in how deliberate everything is and how, by extension,

Thanks! I find that hard books are often the ones which are worth reading.

That's my goal whenever I write reviews: to help people appreciate the merits and flaws in something. Thanks!

Largely I review for passion. For a while I was a part-time game reviewer, but I grew tired of it because I burned out. Thanks for upvoting and commenting!

Thanks! I had to sort through a bunch of pictures I'd taken to get anything good, but I figured I'd share as much of what I got to see in San Francisco as I could.

One thing that I didn't mention here that's one of Taleb's key points: "Experts" who do not have skin in the game can get by looking good. Experts who have skin in the game have to look good.

Shostakovich is a great proof that music is universal and transcends boundaries. I'm not a musician myself, but I come from a family with quite a few musicians (both my parents are), and I find it really

Unfortunately for Shostakovich, people denounced his work as having hidden subversive meanings. It was a sort of thing that happened as a result of Stalin's terror, where people would denounce other people