Thought Experiment – Personal Shibboleths
I engaged in a little thought experiment this week. Assemble a list of 5 books that best signal your domains of interest. I usually dislike “top 5” type lists, and I’m going to stop recommending books to people. But I thought it would be fun to come up with a set of books that function as personal shibboleths. For those who don’t know, “shibboleth” was a phrase that Jews used in the Bible to immediately identify themselves as being part of the group....