Reading list, Numbers

I’ve been thinking about how numbers run my life more than I know, and how I don’t necessarily understand them as well as, say, any of the other boys in the office, who are all good at math. Things like blood sugar levels and their fluctuation from the norm, the measurement of horsepower and torque, baseball stats, psychology. For example, it’s presumably OK to have a certain number of negative thoughts about one’s job, partner, life, meals, favorite television shows… but how many? If I chart them and notice them going up, is my relationship becoming dysfunctional?

So I’ve added “A mathematician reads the newspaper” to my reading list. Other items: “Dirty Havana Trilogy,” because there has to be some fiction in there, “* A Brief History of Everything” because Bill Bryson is hilarious, and “Something for Nothing” which is about luck and American’s obsession with it (again, stats). Plus some business books which are as dry as the day is long.