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  • Review: Project Hail Mary

    https://justatheory.com/2021/12/project-hail-mary/

    A brief review of the new book by Andy Weir.

  • Steve Jobs

    https://justatheory.com/2011/11/steve-jobs/

    Until a few weeks ago, the biography I read most recently was Dutch, Edmund Morris’s authorized portrait of Ronald Reagan. I read it not because I was interested in Reagan, but because Morris did something unique: he inserted himself into Reagan’s story as a (mostly) fictional character. Why would he do that? Morris grew up in Kenya, far from Reagan’s childhood in Illinois, not to mention years later. And yet there he was, a peripheral character throughout the story of Reagan’s life. What was the point?

  • | benji

    https://benji.dog/articles/truls-electronic-bard/

    This post was mostly written by a human.

  • Review: Genius

    https://justatheory.com/2018/02/genius/

    A brief review of the book, subtitled ““he Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, by James Gleick.

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