Sounds like this may be a book worth buying. Funnily enough the last 'Big Idea' book I read was the formulation of one of your premises here: Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Overlong? Perhaps ...too many examples? Maybe.
But I read books not only for ideas but also for their language:
'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.'
Sounds like this may be a book worth buying. Funnily enough the last 'Big Idea' book I read was the formulation of one of your premises here: Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Overlong? Perhaps ...too many examples? Maybe.
But I read books not only for ideas but also for their language:
'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.'
Enough said.
"I think, if you wrote a book, you f—ed up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post." - Sam Bankman-Fried
A scissor statement for our era!
I’m in good company