The "10 games you can play in your head by yourself" book looked interesting enough to me that I've purchased it. I tend to daydream a lot anyway, so hopefully it'll provide some interesting focus for me.
the ReMarkable has been life changing for me: <a href="https://remarkable.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiArbv_BRA8EiwAYGs23Ku05szZigFL1OVbK7YZ31r1XQd3Z3RwUoGNHldFSikyBISafFIbzhoCGvAQAvD_BwE" rel="nofollow">https://remarkable.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiArbv_BRA8EiwAYGs23Ku05s...</a>
The first link "The Octopus: An Alien Among Us" is a good window into the world of animal intelligence research. I am going through a phase of listening to audiobooks on this topic. I can recommend both "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith and "The Genius of Birds" by Jennifer Ackerman if you want good audiobooks that give a whirlwind tour through animal intelligence research into cephalopods and birds, respectively.
Two entries stood out to me. The first is the book "UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernigan", and the second the blog post "A Constructive Look at TempleOS".<p>That blog post [1] along with "A Language Design Analysis of HolyC" [2] inspired me to try out TempleOS for myself. I'm so glad I did, since I got hooked on developing programs in HolyC, and thus learned C in the process. There's something about building a piece of software for a system and knowing that nothing like it has ever existed on that platform before!<p>I've been working in HolyC for over a year, but I just finished K&R tonight, which has me wanting to read more Kernigan, so I'm glad the UNIX book showed up on my radar.<p>(PS feel free to ask me about TempleOS development; email is open)<p>1. <a href="http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/" rel="nofollow">http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...</a><p>2. <a href="https://harrisontotty.github.io/p/a-lang-design-analysis-of-holyc" rel="nofollow">https://harrisontotty.github.io/p/a-lang-design-analysis-of-...</a>
Now while the listed Mark I FORTH computer is pretty cool, I don't see how it relates to 2020 (last update of the blog entry is of 2006). Was 2020 beneficial in that it allowed us to dig deeper in the web?