Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
The kang, a large brick platform (at least 2 × 2 m and 75 cm tall) is warmed by the waste heat from the adjacent stove; it serves as a bed at night and as a resting place during the day (Hommel 1937).
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
It’s a weird feeling, scientific breakthroughs. There’s no Eureka moment. Just a slow, steady progression toward a goal. But man, when you get to that goal it feels good.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
The system is structured in such a way that those who make no effort to know can remain in blissful ignorance, and those who do make an effort will find it very difficult to discover the truth.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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