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Soweit lustig und gut geschrieben.

Woohoo! A nice introduction so far, if a bit wordy. Learning things.

I spent an hour trying to figure out how to legally obtain the German ebook from California. Hopefully it's worth it now. :)

Slow but certain progress. Each new entry yields 3–5 new Anki cards, so I have to space out the chapters in order to allow for the Anki cards to go into rotation. (I started by doing one chapter per day, which was way, way too frequent!)

This is great! The goofy stories make for useful mnemonics. I don't find the phonetic stories necessary — I'm used to learning arbitrary meaning-sound pairs — but maybe I'll start using them once I reach a certain number of characters.

So far, it seems like the novel suggestion is that we should consider a *dual form* of the typical macroeconomic constrained optimization setup, where we optimize over "specialization settings" (my term) rather than homogeneous labor/capital inputs.
This message has been mostly hidden in a lot of rudimentary (GMU) Econ 101 prose, so it's hard to really figure out what's going on..

"My goal is that this book is for non-representational, embodied, ecological psychology what Fodor's *The Language of Thought* (1975) was for rationalist, computational psychology."

Eher schwer — voller komplizierter Ausdrücke, die ich noch nie gesehen habe. Aber es geht... langsam.

Very heavy prose for me, but so far it's an enlightening high-level view of our perspective on man vs. community over the past few centuries.

GOOD.

Q: How did you know this book was about vegetarianism from the title? Maybe that should worry you..!

Excellent down-to-earth writing.

A good book for vacation.