It's the subject of a book club discussion after hours at work next month. I wish I had started early enough to participate in discussing the Steve Jobs biography. (The discussion is next Tuesday... more

It's the subject of a book club discussion after hours at work next month. I wish I had started early enough to participate in discussing the Steve Jobs biography. (The discussion is next Tuesday. Not enough time to read it by then.)

New book! Reding about Babbage now...

Listening on Audible again. Stimulates new insights and connections, makes math seem accessible, and the history is great. Stories of innovation.

Just finished it and I really enjoyed it. I wish I could remember half of the interesting trivia in it. After this and 1494 I need a light easy reading book next.

This is a great audiobook for commuting.

How Chinese characters work: "In swift diagrammatic strokes they encode multidimensional semantic relationships. One device is simple repetition: tree + tree + tree = forest; more abstractly, sun +... more

How Chinese characters work: "In swift diagrammatic strokes they encode multidimensional semantic relationships. One device is simple repetition: tree + tree + tree = forest; more abstractly, sun + moon = brightness and east + east = everywhere."

"We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation." Witty nerds are my favorite humans. :)

Very interesting, but taking longer than I expected.

Checked out this Kindle book at my public library! Yay!

Just had a great interview with James Gleick about The Information :)

Big book. Slow going. Thought that checking in would force me to make some progress.

Quite simply brilliant. Bit of a must read.

History is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Super fascinating and pretty easily read despite the crazy amount of theory and information (hah) in the book. Had to put down for a bit to take a breath though.