The Library · Section 01

Books

This shelf is designed to grow.

Currently reading

Cognition

Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander · 2013

A sprawling case that analogy is not a party trick of thought but its core engine — the way every concept gets made and used.

Philosophy

James P. Carse · 1986

A short, aphoristic book with one idea so clean it keeps unfolding: there are games played to win, and games played to keep playing.

Fiction

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

A novel narrated by an English butler whose devotion to professional dignity slowly reveals the life it cost him.