Rating: Don’t Read
Moral Ambition – Rutger Bregman
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This is Rutger Bregman’s treatise to get you to do more with your life than simply get a job to earn lots of money and find a position of power. He says that you have a deep moral obligation to make a change in the world with your work and that far too many people
Temeraire – Naomi Novik
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While this book was recommended to me (from a source I can’t remember) as an excellent fantasy novel that added dragons to the war between Britain and France during Napoleon’s time, I can’t continue that recommendation. The book is decently written if you want multiple pages on the etiquite difference between the Navy and the
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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This is supposed to be some all fired amazing book about randomness. The title is derived from the idea that Europeans thought all swans were black until they visited Australia and suddenly found a black swan. They had no way of knowing that what they thought was true was untrue until confronted by the evidence.
Decluttered – Jenny Albertini
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Decluttered is a different book that I imagined it would be. I expected a book about strategies to reduce the clutter in my home, but I got a bunch more discussion about the systems that bring clutter into our homes and the trauma that may have caused these systems as valid coping mechanisms. Albertini has
Supercharge Your Reading – Maneetpaul Singh
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This is a short guide showing you how to maximize your reading if you own an e-reader, specifically focusing on the features that come with a Kindle. While there is some good advice here I take exception with his advice on note-taking in books. Singh says that taking notes in a notebook is way too
More Human – Steve Hilton
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In More Human former UK government insider attempts to propose a way to make life more suitable to the humans who have to live it instead of the corporations who seemingly dictate so much of the life humans live. While Steve hits some good notes, he also widely misses the mark on many others. Hilton
Smart Brevity – Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz
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Smart Brevity is here to teach you how to cater your communication to the over-stimulated worker, and community, of today. There are 4 Core ideas for the writing system presented. The authors really like their bullet points and figure that’s the correct way to do your communication. Their strongest point is that you probably write
The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
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Sure it’s an interesting idea, but I’m not sure if it’s the translation or the original writing…I just didn’t like it. The most interesting thing was the protein folding idea for turning things into a super-computer and how it related to the countdown seen in images and retina, but those few pages weren’t enough for
DevOps with Kubernetes – Stephen Fleming
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This is a very high-level overview of what DevOps is in the first section and then how Kubernetes works in the second section. While I hoped to glean something from this, it should have been a blog post. At least if it was a blog post the numerous spelling mistakes and grammar issues could have
Changer – Matt Gemmell
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While I’ve enjoyed Matt’s writing online on his site, and even a bunch of his short stories, this book didn’t do it for me. In fact, I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the book. I made it about 15% in and then the dialogue was so cliche and the scenarios involved so unbelievable that
