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diff --git a/books/2016.page b/books/2016.page index 53bd8a0..529b708 100644 --- a/books/2016.page +++ b/books/2016.page @@ -1,38 +1,53 @@ The Good Terrorist, by Doris Lessing (1985) +-------------------------------------------- Reinventing Discovery, by Michael Nielsen (2011) +-------------------------------------------- Collapse, Jared Diamond (2005) +-------------------------------------------- Whole Earth Discipline, Steward Brand (2010) +--------------------------------------------- The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, by Jane Pynter (2006) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - One of my favorite reads of the year! - History of the project is fascinating. Sounds like the habitat itself was - amazingly ambitious and well constructed, but the social organization fell - apart after that and there wasn't discipline in running the experiments. - Disapointed to learn how exogenous the habitat was regarding air - conditioning and electricity, really only focused on mass transfer. I don't - really consider the first run a "failure" due to air exchange; seems like a - lot was learned, especially regarding social cohesion, which I would - consider part of the experiment. - The first large chunk of the book is very autobiographical, and it's an - interesting life story. Sort of orthogonal to the experiment itself, though - it does give context for how the whole thing got off the ground as a hippie - collective, which I found pretty inspiring. - Crazy historical detail: Steve Bannon (Breitbart editor and Trump - presidential advisor) was involved in a repossesion of the Biosphere - facility! +One of my favorite reads of the year! + +History of the project is fascinating. Sounds like the habitat itself was +amazingly ambitious and well constructed, but the social organization fell +apart after that and there wasn't discipline in running the experiments. + +Disapointed to learn how exogenous the habitat was regarding air +conditioning and electricity, really only focused on mass transfer. I don't +really consider the first run a "failure" due to air exchange; seems like a +lot was learned, especially regarding social cohesion, which I would +consider part of the experiment. + +The first large chunk of the book is very autobiographical, and it's an +interesting life story. Sort of orthogonal to the experiment itself, though +it does give context for how the whole thing got off the ground as a hippie +collective, which I found pretty inspiring. + +Crazy historical detail: Steve Bannon (Breitbart editor and Trump presidential advisor) was involved in a repossesion of the Biosphere +facility! Death's End (Three Body Problem), Liu Cixin (刘慈欣). +----------------------------------------------------------- Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs +----------------------------------------------------------- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie (Rilke translation, 2002) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca +-------------------------------------------- + +More +------- Not cover to cover: * Manufacturing Process for Design Professionals |