I was very pleasantly surprised a couple of years back that I reopened an old book, which

I had read or I thought I'd read about a decade ago called The Beginning of Infinity

by David Deutsch.

Sometimes you read a book and it makes a difference right away.

Sometimes you read a book and you don't understand it, then you read it later at the right

time and it makes a difference.

This time when I reopened this book and I went through it much more carefully than I had

in the past, meticulously rather than reading it to read it and to say I was done reading

it, I read it to understand the concepts and the topics and stopped at every point where

something was new.

It completely started reforming my worldview.

It changed the way I think and I would credit this book as being probably the only book

in the last decade except maybe a few of Nassim Taleb's works and maybe one or two other

scattered books that I feel made me smarter.

They literally expanded the way that I think they expanded not just the repertoire of my

knowledge but the repertoire of my reasoning.

They'll throw around words like mental models a lot and I find most mental models not worth

reading or thinking about or listening to because I find them trivial.

However, the mental models that came out of the beginning of infinity are transformational

because they very convincingly completely changed the way that you look at what is true

and what is not.

Karl Popper laid out the theory of what is scientific and what is not, what is a good explanation,

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