The Beginning of Infinity.
Deutsch’s gift is not a set of claims. It’s a lens: progress as the production of good explanations—and the moral demand to keep error-correction alive.
Epistemology
Explanations, knowledge, reading, and how we come to know anything at all.
On Rereading
Most reading is consumption. Rereading is conversation. The book hasn’t changed; you have.
The Augmented Brain: How Search Engines Are Changing the Way We Think
By 2025, search engines and recommendation systems have moved beyond mere tools for retrieving information—they’ve become extensions of human cognition, functioning as externalized brains. Powered by advances in indexing, vector databases, and cross-referencing technologies, these systems reshape how we process knowledge. But as they grow indispensable, we must confront a critical question: Are they enhancing our thinking, or are we outsourcing it entirely?
On J.E. Gordon’s Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down
There’s something delightful about a book that takes a subject as unsexy as “why stuff doesn’t fall over” and manages to make it both fascinating and, dare I say, funny. J.E. Gordon’s Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down is that rare sort of book—one that sneaks into your brain disguised as entertainment but leaves you a bit smarter, slightly smugger, and much more suspicious of bridges.