There is a great podcast episode and to some extent all of season 5 of Articles of Interest touch on this topic to varying degrees. This is the link to the first episode of season 5

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/articles-of-interest/id1455169228?i=1000649826378 

 oh nice, I've listed to some of Avery Trufelman's pieces - its pretty good. Will check it out