My Brain Food

Join My Brain Food

A batch of the best highlights from what Louis's read, .

If you’re not working hard, you’re probably wasting your time.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement.Indeed, if there were such a thing as a purely logical principle of induction, there would be no problem of induction; for in this case, all inductive inferences would have to be regarded as purely logical or tautological transformations, just like inferences in deductive logic.

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Karl Popper

By selecting and growing those few species of plants and animals that we can eat, so that they constitute 90 percent rather than 0.1 percent of the biomass on an acre of land, we obtain far more edible calories per acre. As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers— typically, 10 to 100 times more—than hunter-gatherers. That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gained over hunter-gatherer tribes.

Jared M. Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

1999, W. W. Norton & Company

...catch up on these, and many more highlights

Readwise.

Join My Brain Food

A batch of the best highlights from what Louis's read, .

LEARN

EXPLORE

CONTACT