Books
Livio’s Brilliant Blunders was decent.
Fox’s The Game Changer didn’t have much concrete advice. Mostly it was a sales pitch for motivation engineering without saying much about how to do it within an organization.
Drucker’s Management Challenges for the 21st Century was a mixed bag, and included as much large-scale economic speculation as it did management advice.
Adams’ How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big was a very mixed bag of advice, which then tries unconvincingly to say it isn’t a book of advice.
Favorite tracks or albums discovered this month
- Ryan Power, “Sweetheart”
- Tobias Jesso Jr., “Hollywood”
- Jim Guthrie, “The Prettiest Weed”
- Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
Stuff I wrote elsewhere
- Interview: Bill Hibbard on Ethical Artificial Intelligence
- 2014 in review (MIRI annual review)
Hi Luke, I appreciated your meticulous review of Sam Harris’ “The Moral Landscape” http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=12020
I thought you might like to see a couple of pages from my website which address some of the objections to his book head-on.
http://yellowgrain.co.uk/healing_principle.html
http://yellowgrain.co.uk/personal_morality.html
The site is intended both as an answer to religious criticism of atheist morality, and as a guide to morality for atheists.
Best wishes
Simon Perry.
Sorry, I’m just not putting time into those topics anymore.