My name is James Somers.
I’m a sophomore studying economics and pure mathematics at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). I was born in Montreal, lived briefly in London and Denver, and split time between New Jersey and Florida when I leave Michigan.
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Here’s what I’ve been reading in the last few months:
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- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (Richard Feynman)
- Inside the Japanese System (Thomas Rohlan)
- Excursions into Number Theory (Geoff Ogilvy)
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hoftstatder)
- Metamagical Themas (Douglas Hoftstatder)
- Emergence (John Holland)
- Godel’s Proof (Ernest Nagel)
- Autobiography (Malcolm X)
- Syntactic Structure (Noam Chomsky)
- On Democracy (Robert Dahl)
- Founders at Work (Jessica Livingston)
- A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
- The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
- A New Kind of Science (Steve Wolfram)
- Complex Adaptive Systems: The Interest In Between (Scott Page, forthcoming)
- Hidden Order (John Holland)
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I keep up with the following blogs:
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- A List Apart
- Aaron Swartz
- avinash.vora
- Bokardo
- Digg blog
- Dion Hinchcliffe
- Facebook blog
- Felicis Ventures blog
- Freakonomics blog
- Guy Kawasaki
- Jean Sini
- John Cobb
- John Gruber
- Kevin Smokler
- Marginal Revolution
- Overcoming Bias
- Paul Graham: Essays
- Scott Adams
- Seth Godin
- Seth Roberts
- Stickis
- Techcrunch
- The Toomey Fund
- Woot!
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If you’re interested, you can find my recently played chess games in standard algebraic notation here.
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You can find my resume here (.pdf).