Five Stars

Ties math, art, and music together in a really interesting way. By no means an easy read, but absolutely fascinating.

I’ve since read a lot of valid criticism about the book, so unfortunately best to treat this a bit more as entertainment / messy theorizing than purely factual. Still, I absolutely loved this when I read it and it put me on a path to read all sorts of history, evolutionary biology, and linguistics books.

I’m the right age, and right amount of nerd, for this to hit the spot.

This book really helped my mental health in my 20s, but apparently it also faces replication issues like many of the pop-psych books in the last few decades.

Absolutely loved this when it came out, not sure how it holds up now.

One of the best design books ever written