This is great for the descriptions of Shannon alone:
> Claude also had a swing about 35 feet long attached to a huge tree, on a slope. We started the swing from uphill and the downhill end of the arc could be as much as 15 or 20 feet above the ground.
> Claude’s neighbors on the Mystic lake were occasionally astounded to see a figure “walking on the water.” It was me using a pair of Claude’s huge styrofoam “shoes” designed just for this.
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[ 20.7 ms ] story [ 159 ms ] threadT.A. Bass, The Endaemonic Pie, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1985.
( Still got my first edition from '85 on the shelf )
> Claude also had a swing about 35 feet long attached to a huge tree, on a slope. We started the swing from uphill and the downhill end of the arc could be as much as 15 or 20 feet above the ground.
> Claude’s neighbors on the Mystic lake were occasionally astounded to see a figure “walking on the water.” It was me using a pair of Claude’s huge styrofoam “shoes” designed just for this.
https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg
Lots of great information in the video. He discovered the Madoff scheme 17 years before it was publicly discovered.
So many recommendations:
- Poor Charlie’s Almanac
- https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/elon-musk-cognitive-bia...
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- Externalities
- Book: The Wolf at the Door https://shapiro.macmillan.yale.edu/publications/books/wolf-d...
Here’s a book he wrote a few years ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Man-All-Markets-Street-Dealer/dp/0812...