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by David Epstein
Who uses, recommends or left Range, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people
Given what we wrote in opening about our method of integrating ideas from different domains it's not surprising that we loved this book.
The Growth Equation's top books of 2019; entries from the "Brad's Picks" section (Amazon affiliate links)
2019-12-03·thegrowtheq.com ↗
I learned this from reading a good, myth-debunking book called Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
Gates's 2020 holiday reading list entry on David Epstein's book about generalists.
2020-12-08·gatesnotes.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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