"You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership." [0, 1] - Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN

0: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper 1: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-wit.html

Anyone who agrees with or is intrigued by the above comment may very well enjoy Frans De Waal's book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Publisher link: https://wwnorton.com/books/Are-We-Smart-Enough-to-Know-How-S...

When I was a little kid in Long Beach I remember some days we couldn't use the drinking fountains at school and stuff like that because they (city? state?) had sprayed for medflies that day. I have no details, it's just a childhood memory.

I had no reason to access that memory except that it's here on HN. As a kid I had no idea there was anything more to it, but thanks to this post, now I do. Neat.

The author of this post is Adam Lichtl, probably the most intelligent person I've ever gotten to speak to in real life. He's really neat.

I bought Modern Classical Physics last summer as a birthday gift to myself and I am also slowly going through it.

Oh wow! This looks like the physics book that I always wanted to read. Phd 2016 in condensed matter physics - now working in a mid-size (~600 people) software company as a data scientist.

Modern Classical Physics is a great book - I've recently started working through it (just about to move on to chapter 2). I'd be interested in chatting about it with others/cross-checking solutions. Anyone who's interested, drop me an email (address in my profile).

If you're thinking of getting it but want to check it out, there's a 2012 draft version that the authors have previously taught from here: http://www.pmaweb.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2012/. It's not the same as the book, of course, but from a skim it seems quite similar.

Thanks! This looks like what I will start with. Can't find your email in your profile, though.

Ex-PhD student in general relativity here, also slowly going thru that book. If anyone wants to start a reading (slack?) group together, I’d be interested. I have no one to talk to about this stuff IRL.

I would love to join a reading group (on slack or another messaging platform) on this book.

Does Slack let you write LaTeX?

And is this book a good read for someone re-learning math having only taken high school physics?

Depends on what the math re-learning covers. You'd need differential equations and 2nd year calculus.

A good choice for less math might be "Gravity from the ground up" by Schutz.

I've read several of his books. My favorite is Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are. Very much worth your time.

Way better than when Quicken moved to the city :)

"Handpicked by AI..."

I hope that joke was intentional.

;)

Well, I wanted to automate it, but the "AI" just so easily got fooled, though if anyone is interesting in working on it with me I'd be happy. Now that I've been running it for an year, I have some unique insights that would be helpful.

If you are planning to eventually automate this with some sort of recommendation engine, then I hope you're at least capturing all the data and analytics currently to help drive that in the future!

Great work, DM'ing you