Yeah…I’m a geek

I borrowed this book from a colleague at work that shares an interest in reading nonfiction.  Technically, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines is a work of fiction (the author, Janna Levin, has taken historical accounts from other resources and coloured the book with some fictitious additions), but much of the material is historically correct.  Essentially, [...]

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions was purchased at the same time I bought The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World (Tim Herford) based on a new way I wanted to read.  Essentially, I wanted to buy two books at once that had almost polar opposite views on [...]