I read this one back in 2013 and I’m sure there are more modern treatments (which I’d be happy to hear about) but if you want get a 1987 perspective on the failed promises of computer skill acquisition you would probably do worse than to read Dreyfus & Dreyfus’s "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039572.Mind_Over_Machine).
Figure 2. The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background.
Ah, jeeze, these hamsicks and circle-As are really picky about having the crust cut off of their diagonal cut PB&Js and the skins peeled off of their apple slices and etc, and etc. I really [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral)
peeking into the party around the person I don’t know who opened the door: Hey!
Slightly later over a beer: uh, so what do you do? (people love this question)
Oh me? I’m a founder. We make [unintelligible]. Haha, yeah, no, it’s software for cold calling people. No yeah it still “works” ha ha ha. You don’t answer your phone? Wow do you mind if I double-click on that, I [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral at the party)
Inventing a new “federal housing insurance corporation” as a thought experiment and being tackled and beaten unconscious by 90 Stanford grad founder-in-bio posters wearing Fnord brand “punch left" gear I didn’t even know sports basement sold because that part of the store is invisible to me, a normal person
Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don’t know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down.
Figure 1. Tweet screenshot@ImJuneFacts: The best novel I read this year was The Museum of Eterna's Novel (the First Good Novel). It has 50 prologues for the simple reason that the book is reluctant to begin, and is metafiction in the sense that it explores an intermediate reality between our own and that of the fiction.
Threading is getting fragile so I’m backing this out to the main thread: what I thought would be the fifth, sixth, or maybe seventh book of the year turned out to be my eight. Such is the tragic unpredictability of having a full shelf of in-progress and to-read nonsense.
The Rochester “Three Percent” review closes with a lovely summary.
Figure 2. the current paperback cover, a three color bullseye offset over a white field.Figure 3. The last paragraph of the rochester review (see link in post).
Figure 1. Large, round peperoni pizza home-fired in a gas ooni koda, well leopard spotted mozza, cupped pepperonis, perfectly charred and shaped crust (ok, the bit around 2 o’clock around is actually burned)under baked bottom on account of experimenting w/ both a pizza-ring and a lower (~550F) launch temperature while fucking up and using too much cheese and sauce.
Warms the cockles of my bureaucratic heart to see a team of competent workers swoop in, protect other workers, and prevent losses for debtors (while realizing losses for risk takers): this must be what it feels like to “send in the troops”
Figure 1. selfie, full length mirror, new black t shirt from melville house, "I WOULD PREFER NOT TO." in white block san in the front, brown levis cords, blacked out vans.
