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How to build a worldview - by Gonzalo Nuñez

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A pattern language for understanding the world and my place in it.

I will never forget when I flipped through the final pages of Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building. I was at the beach in my hometown. Most of my time spent reading the book was at the beach, on one of those vinyl strap lounge chairs, the ones you can find on basically every beach in the world. They make good beach chairs and have a very honest, timeless quality to them. I bought the book immediately after a conversation with a friend where he described it as “truly life-changing.” I paid fifty dollars for it, presumably because it’s out of print. I figured it would be well…

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