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Welcome @tamarawinter!
Tamara is the Commissioning Editor for Stripe Press. I like to think of Stripe Press as a distribution channel for the most interesting ideas in the world.
She has kindly agreed to do an AMA.
Reply with your questions :)
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@kpx
Reading Sophie’s World
Already read around 50% of it. It’s a crash course in the history of philosophy.
I’m not sure who is going to like this book. People who have already read philosophy probably don’t need it because it only outlines the ideas of various philosophers without going deep into any of them.
And people who are interested in philosophy and want to start reading it might get demotivated after seeing just how much there is to learn. Although I’m not sure about that.
The good thing is that it’s a light read compared to the actual books it talks about (obviously), and it can be a source of inspiration for choosing a few of those books to read.
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@anaroth
Has anyone read any of the later Mistborn books after the trilogy?
I’m finishing up the latest Red Rising book, and wondering if I need to dip back into the Misborn world
But I know it’s long after the first trilogy and all new characters
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@les
Feeling a little burnt out lately and haven’t been able to connect with any books for a while.
Today picked this up and trying to grow an appreciation for the experiment we call “freedoms”.
First paragraph and am already reminded we are constantly in a fight for decentralization when centrality becomes abused.
And also how heavily abstracted we now live from “Declaration of Independence” and what “constitution” even means.
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@chi
Estoy leyendo este libro y cada 5 mintos estoy pensando "ya verás es ahora cuando hablar de Ethereum"
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rutger-bregman/humankind/9780316418553/?lens=little-brown
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@basement5k
My Tuesday morning run was about 8.1 lbs heavier on the way home.
An architect that lives around the corner was getting rid of a ton of books and magazines and this has oike 3 of my top 5 favorite words on it.
Spent a couple hours reading through it today - worth the trek imo. For reference, here is how it stacks up to a standard copy of Kitchen Confidential
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