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After we finish reading a book, our memories of it quickly fade and can even get distorted. Andrew Elfenbein has studied how the things we read get transformed in memory. What we remember may diverge from what’s in the book, but that doesn’t mean we’re sloppy readers – we’re actually using highly sophisticated skills without even noticing. By understanding this process we can better appreciate how books live on in our minds long after we’ve read them. Bonus clip

Click here to listen to a bonus clip of Andrew discussing how people we meet in real life reshape our memories of fictional characters – and vice versa.

Works mentioned

– Charles Dickens, Bleak House

Further reading

Erica Wickerson at The Independent – Detective fiction: Why do we care whodunnit?

The Guardian – Top writers choose their perfect crime

Ian Crouch at The New Yorker – The Curse of Reading and Forgetting

Website of Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA – links to radio and podcast interviews on childhood literacy and the psychology of reading

Daniel Willingham – Cool Reading Facts 3: Reading Is Self-Taught. Partly.

Students at a Bucks County middle school learned from home on Wednesday after an 11-year-old boy fired a gun near the school building on Tuesday afternoon. NBC10's Leah Uko has more on the details on the investigation.

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With Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. At The Pragmatic Summit: www.pragmaticsummit.com. See a writeup of the talk: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cycles-of-disruption-in-the-tech

Watch the session with Q&A also included: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-summit-recordings

0:00 Intro

2:11 Ideas from Agile/TDD/refactoring that stuck

9:04 Historical analogies: microprocessor, internet, OO, Agile

16:44 Why good practices still fail

21:21 How the AI shift is different

25:50 Engineers as managers of multiple agents

27:11 One-pizza vs two-pizza teams

29:07 Developer experience and agent experience

337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw

April 13, 2026

In this podcast episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with artist and writer James Bridle about what we actually mean when we say "intelligence." They discuss…

As institutions unravel, Rebecca Solnit argues despair is a mistake—and that a more compassionate, just world is already being born.

Episode 353

The world might feel dark right now, but life is actually getting better, rapidly. From the rise of feminism and antiracism to environmental movements and shifting understandings of gender, the Western world looks nothing like it did 75 years ago. 

Yet despite so many historic victories for rights and ideas in recent times, it often feels like we’re living in dark times - with progress that’s stalling or going backwards.

In her new book, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit explores how for decades social movements reshaped the world in ways we often fail to notice. Solnit argues that we are witnessing nothing less than the slow dismantling of an old worldview. And it’s time we pay attention. 

Rowan Hooper speaks to Solnit about the power of a good story, our growing understanding of the interconnectedness of nature and humanity - and why recognising progress may be essential to shaping the future.

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My conversation with Rebecca Solnit