Amazon books came in Monday 12/15! When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (2001) by Roger Lowenstein,  Myths of Rich and Poor:Why We’re Better Off Than We Think  (1999) by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, and The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (2010) by Nicholas Carr.

Read chapters 1 through 7 of Lowenstein’s Rise and Fall of LTCM. Also read the first five chapters of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows while note taking in the margins and underlining this and that. Carr hasn’t talked about the brain as much as I thought he would have in the first five chapters. He cites some study about monkeys with severed hand nerves and the corresponding rewiring in the brain at  the synaptic level, but there’s not much science there.