"In the Cool of the Day" had several points in common with the “Wasted Promise” story I’ve got percolating, merged with “Age Discrepancy” that I had to watch as much as I had time for.
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I post on mental construction (how our brains work), stories that I write, and current events.
Robert HamillBooks Read
Grand Pursuit – Sylvia Naser
Subtitle – The Story of Economic Genius I’m about ¾ finished. Too much biographic detail, gives context for economic problems arose in, but too much biography obstructing the view of the theory for my taste. Pre-WWI Panics. Slowly, dawning recognition of relationship between falling prices, amount of currency in circulation Post-WWI Hyperinflation. Printing of...
William James Bio by Robert Richardson
Because he believed we don’t know all, spiritualism, religion (as in awe, not formal churches) are possible
On Writing Well – William Zinsser
Subtitle: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction Good, solid advice. Now, add more content in Mental Construction. He also discusses writing family history. Example his Writing About Your Life which is part his family story and part technique.
Pat Conroy
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy has some interesting book reports in it. In Gone With the Wind, he tells the story but always against the backdrop of what the book meant to his mother and the women of the South. He later explores other books by how he was affected. In between is...
Harrison Bergeron
Equality for all means no one excels
Exorbitant Privilege
Reading Barry Eichengreen’s latest book. He is excellent on explaining econ history, but not so much on future projection. ‘Exorbitant Privilege’ is about the benefit to the US of the dollar as a reserve currency and what the current problems and possibilities are. Here are two nice facts he provides. And insofar as foreign...
Beyond Red and Blue
Beyond Red and Blue by Peter S. Wenz. A descriptive, non-judgmental discussion of 12 types of political philosophies as applied to 14 societal issues. Typically people use a mix or weighing of philosophies to decide their final position. Click on link for more details, including occasional notes I’ve added to clarify the philosophies to...
Who Remembers
Richard Brautigan. “Trout Fishing in America”. I really enjoyed whimsy humor in that book and others back in the ’70s. I haven’t heard his name for sometime. Just thought it should be mentioned.
Difference Equations
Background research - How quickly do prices converge to the equilibrium price in the marketplace? What conditions must exist to guarantee convergence? Where can I find useful data series?