>He writes 20,000 words on a highly abstract and technical subject, and every single hyperlink in the article goes to either one of his own websites, or to Wikipedia.

Exerpt: "But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs, rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere."

He also draws out everything more than it needs to be in this long winded narrative and explicit self-congradulatory form that makes me usually wait until someone else reputable with a computer or computational science background reads it and summarizes to see if it's worth suffering through the time to read it myself. Not only is it questionable (Conway and many others come to mind, would have to check dates to see origins but honestly who cares), it's just off-putting.