george w.s. trow RIP

the lack of rigor is the best part!! my favorite thing in the times obit is about how his most-used phrase was 'youll have to trust me on that one' and among the things you have to trust him on is everything that has to do with his thesis

the best ideas in WtCoNC are obfuscated by a lot of (to me) completely uneccessary layers of attempts to be clever about dumb stuff.

the NYer excerpt just reminded me of why I don't feel bad about giving up on it 60% through