
Thursday, March 12th 2026 at 8:53 PM
This book is a delight to read! Lots of little jokes and asides to make you feel welcome. I also like the way a lot of the sentences are structured - lots of parentheticals as examples reminders of what they're talking about in a broader sense. I guess maybe that is partly Feynman influence? I've never actually read the physics lectures the title references to check. Still a fun reminder that you can put effort into doing things differently and it can pay off in being useful to people.
What have I been reading about? Today it was about the scheduler and how it schedules tasks on the CPU. I loved that it went from a toy model to help you think about it, to gradually introducing the complexities of real-world situations. Really thoughtful way of explaining how a system works.