With the Tolkien diversion I mentioned yesterday, I decided that I needed a plan to execute it. I outlined my rather simplistic goals to ChatGPT (o1) and then asked for it to consider my goals and produce a reading list in the order that provides maximum entertainment, while also considering my desire to deep dive…

The butterfly flaps its wings and I find myself down an unexpected path. I mentioned the other day that I was going to read David Herbert Donald’s biography of Lincoln. On the way to Lincoln, however, I bumped into The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition. I read the foreword, and then…