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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick</h1>
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2018-10-28
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/james-gleick/">#james gleick</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/richard-feynman/">#richard feynman</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98685.Genius">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman—a giant of twentieth century
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physics—from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the
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Manhattan Project and beyond.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>Biographies (even auto-biographies) are not without problems. But it takes a
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lot of effort to lose the mark.</p>
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<p>Imagine that you're drawing the life time of someone; you can't use a pen with
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a thin point, otherwise you'll end up with simple "they did this, they did
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that" with dates, which doesn't give the proper understanding and context of
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why the subject did this and that. In the same vein, you can't use a pen
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larger than a marker, otherwise you'll spend too much time on things that are
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not related to the subject.</p>
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<p>And this book draw the life of Feynman with a brush.</p>
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<p>There is a whole chapter about absolutely nothing but a discussion about what
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"genius" mean, which seems more targeted to explain the book title than what
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happened to Feynman -- or even if his colleagues and family though he was a
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genius, for whatever meaning of the word.</p>
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<p>There are other chapters than, instead of focusing of Feynman, focus on other
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subjects, in points that do not related to Feynman directly. The last chapter,
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focused on the Challenger explosion, in which Feynman was part of the
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commission to explain the explosion, talks a lot more about NASA politics than
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Feynman.</p>
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<p>And, on top of that, the author is very lose with poetic prose instead of
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being direct to the point. Also, the lack of a continuous timeline, with the
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points moving back and forth through time, makes it hard to understand when
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