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James Gleick's The Information is the clearest history we have of how the world learned to measure the signal. It is also the book that showed me, by drawing the boundary so cleanly, the one thing the science of information set aside on purpose: meaning. This review is the origin story of the work I have been doing since I closed it.
McDougall went to Mexico's Copper Canyons looking for the secret to running without injury. What he found was a hidden tribe of superathletes, an argument that humans evolved to run, and a story so good it launched an entire movement. Born to Run is part investigation, part adventure, and part love letter to the oldest human activity.
Sagan asked what makes us significant before AI forced the question. Written in 1994, Pale Blue Dot reads differently now, and more urgently.
Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden isn’t just another book on human intelligence, it’s an interdisciplinary fusion of science, philosophy, and speculative inquiry.