I'm such an addict. Feeding the hunger in Palo Alto four times a week isn't enough. I have to do it at home too, in my spare time, instead of sleeping, eating, movies, social interaction. I do it while walking. Lately I've been doing it in class behind my three-ring binder. Last night I used the internet to help feed the need, since it caters to all the kinks there are.

You guessed it, I'm a knowledge junkie. The double-dose of grad school isn't supplying my learning fix, so I went on another amazon.com binge. On the way are:

• "The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State" Bruce Benson; (anarcho-capitalism)
• "Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life" Nassim Nicholas Taleb (silly people, seeing patterns when none are there)
• "The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps" Marshall T. Savage, Arthur Charles Clarke (Introduction); (might be useful for seasteading research)
• "The Evolution of Cooperation" Robert Axelrod; (the original book discussing the Prisoners Dilemma competitions and the infamous TIT-FOR-TIT)
• "The Complexity of Cooperation" Robert M. Axelrod; (a later book with more advanced discussion)
• "Simple Rules for a Complex World" Richard A. Epstein; (argues that by making complicated rules to get precise justice, we end up with less justice than if we stuck with simpler rules.)
• Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With the Common Good" Richard A. Epstein; (libertarian philosophy from a legal standpoint)
• "Adaptation and Natural Selection" George Christopher Williams; (Williams is one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology, and this was his groundbreaking work)

Seriously, though, I do sometimes use learning as an escape from doing, and that's bad. Learning in the service of doing is so much cooler, but I love it either way. Can't give in too often though, gotta shift that balance over towards doing, its more satisfying in the end...push...push...push...man, this is hard, can I take a rest for a minute and read?

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