So I have started my book on man-made disasters. It is amazing how people ignore things that cause disease and even kill people. You can tell that the people creating the waste are pretty greedy because they deny everything even after doing tests, like in the story I recently read about where this company in Japan was dumping mercury into the water with their chemicals that infected the fish and the people that ate them. But of course it is not always companies. For example, in England a giant soot cloud covered everything in London, but it was made by everybody using their fireplaces not just a company.
If anybody is doing summer reading please comment about it.
I'm reading a book this summer, but it's for work rather than fun. It's "Test Driven Development", and describes why it's a good idea to write a test program before writing the computer program you really want, if your program is at all complicated. It sounds like doing twice as much work, but they show how it saves you time in the long run.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not the book I would have chosen for fun.
I actually think your book would be easier.
ReplyDeleteI am reading "Adapt: Every Success Begins in Failure" by Tim Harford. Awesome. Also reading "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Looks at how the social identity of a genius as being a maverick with more talent than his or her peers is false. Gladwell claims that masters within their field have more than 10,000 hours of practice within their field and are a by product of their cultural peers.
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