future kids note

This is to be hand-written and put in their drawer:

guys,

if you're scared to tell me something, just bring me this note as a reminder that I'm here to support you. I won't get mad; I will work with you on a solution.

thoughts

my epistemology does not take exceptions.  sh

fascism is the blend of racism and religion

...

You know what a shit-rope is? It is a rope covered in shit.

books read this year.

2013
Books:
Sam Harris: Free Will
1,000s+: Bible KVJ
Carl Sagan: Demon-Haunted World
Francis Collins: The language of god
Richard Dawkins: The blind watch maker
Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath
Christopher Hitchens: Arguably (various essays)

Plays:
Oscar Wilde: The importance of being Ernest. (book club)

2014
Books:
Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath was....ok.
Orwell: 1984 (book club)
Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot
Goethe : Faust 1 (book club)
Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five.  So it goes. (book club)
Lowry: The Giver (book club)
Franklin: Ben Franklin Autobiography.
Augustine of Hippo: The Confessions. Autobiography. 300-350ish
Benvenuto Cellini: Autobiography. 1500-1571
Louie Zamparini: Unbroken
Yes please: Amy Poehler
John Woolman: Personal Journal.  1720ish
Daniel Kahnman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (slow nighttime reading)

Plays:
Shakespeare: The Tempest (reading with dad).

Music?
Beau Soir, Debussey

2015
Steinbeck: Of mice and men (reread)
Gladwell: Blink
Emerson (b. 1803):

• The American Scholar
• An Address
• Man the Reformer
• Self-Reliance - (probably the best english essay I've ever read)
• Compensation

Roth: Divergent

Weir: The Martian

Walking Dead Compendium #1.
Tolkin: The Hobbit (reread)
HG Wells: Time Machine.
Hochschild: King Leopold's Ghost.
Paine: Common Sense
Behe: Darwin's Black Box

Arthur C. Clarke: The Nine Billion Names of God

2016
Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
Peter Thiel: Zero to One

2017
Doris Kearns Goodwin: team of rivals
Ron Chernow: Washington: A life
Atul Gawande: Being Mortal

Papers

• Cuckoo Filters

2021

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale

Jeanine Cummins: American Dirt

Ayn Rand: Anthem (Reread)

Roger Williams: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

William Finnegan: Barbarian Days

Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary

Erich Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Tolkin: The Hobbit (Henry read)

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist (Henry read)

C.S. Lewis: The lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe (Henry read)

Marc Brettler: How to read the jewish bible

Josephus: The Jewish War

James Pritchard: The Ancient Near East

Eusebius: The History of the Church

Dale Martin: New Testament History and Literature

Frank Herbert: Dune

Jonathan Bush: Where Does It Hurt?

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Plays:
Shakespeare: Hamlet

life views

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure about anything.

RF

summer hobby projects

Tesla Coil
observatory

hydro plant

Better understand Cryptology: http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/chapter1.html

Deeper understanding of P/NP

Urban beekeeping.

Operas to watch:

La boheme, Puccini

Carmen, Georges Bizet

The Magic Flute, Mozart

Don Giovanni*, Mozart

The Marriage of Figaro*, Mozart

The Barber of Seville, Gioacchino Rossini

Madama Butterfly, Puccini

Tosca, Puccini

Turandot, Puccini

Rigoletto, Verdi

La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi

Cosi fan tutte, Mozart

Aida, Verdi

Falstaff, Verdi

L'elisir d'amore, Donizetti

Il Trovatore, Verdi

Otello, Verdi

Pirates of Penzance, Sullivan, Aruthur

Romeo & Juliet, Gounod

Porgy & Bess, Gershwin

Learn Cello

claims of truth

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.