reading
4 entries
Bach's Goldberg Variations
A bar-by-bar walk through the variations. Slow going, and worth it for the running argument that the theme is the bass line, not the tune.
The Craftsman
The best account I have read of why "just make it work" and "make it well" are not in tension but are the same instinct at different time horizons.
The Design of Everyday Things
Put down two-thirds through, not because it is wrong but because I had already absorbed it secondhand. Everything in it had reached me before the book did.
Seeing Like a State
Recommended to me three separate times by three people who do not know each other, which I have decided to treat as a signal.