excellent idea to read this at year ending/ year beginning ... the local library had a copy in ebook format.

So Charlie almost went blind in the 1950s, then went on to live many decades more, with amazing success. Ben Franklin and then some.

So stunning to see his "100 models of the world" and hints about superintelligence being interdisciplinary. Almost like he was anticipating powerful AIs.

I could not read some of his talks, but most of the text was very clearly thought out, and time-tested over decades of stunning success. He lived his advice of staying within the boundaries of what he understood well.