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A Simplified Life
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Ley is writing a book, predominately to women, about how to simplify your life. Pair down your commitments, cut back on all the stuff you have in your house, don’t fall into consumer culture. This is a decent book in the genre, and only has a light touch of Christian overtones instead of throwing it…
Do the Work
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Why don’t you do the work? According to Pressfield it’s because of the resistance and the more important an item is to our soul/survival the more the resistance will rear is head to stop us from doing the work. This short book is all about helping you encounter the resistance so you can do the…
The Apple II Age
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What choices made the Apple II such a juggernaut in the early personal computing days? How did it become the standard of personal computing that many people measured everything else by? Nooney takes a walk through the software that debuted on the Apple II and how it shaped personal computing from something just for businesses,…
Powder Days
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If you’ve idealized the life of a ski bum, or that friend that lives down by the river and kayaks every moment they can, this book takes a look at what the culture of being a dirtbag really means. It’s about risk, and self-medication with more risk or alcohol and drugs, and living a life…
Feel Good Productivity
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Is productivity about grinding and hustle? Is there something else that can help you get your important tasks done? In this book Ali Abdaal looks at the field of Positive Psychology to see how it can help us be more productive. Purchase Feel Good Productivity on Amazon
Knowing What We Know
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Simon Winchester examines information transmission through time. From oral traditions, to computers, how do we know what we know? One of the most interesting questions is that of digital amnesia, where information is easy to gather from the internet so it has little value to us and thus we forget it easily. We explored similar…
Not with a Bug but with a Sticker
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The authors show us just how dumb AI systems are and how overblown the claims of computer vision investors, and LLM producers really are. Don’t believe the AI hype, the systems are brittle and not that smart, everyone invested in them just wants you to think the opposite. Purchase Not with a Bug but with…
Number Go Up
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Number Go Up is a look at the crypto currency “industry” though by the end readers are left with the distinct impression that crypto is more about scamming people and a very few people earning big bucks on the backs of the losses of many. Ostensibly the author is looking for the real world US…
The Climate Book
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The Climate Book is a stark awakening on the climate crisis that we’re in. My biggest takeaway is how little the Global North (North American and Europe) are truly doing to make a dent in the climate crises. They’ve done a good job at making it look like they’re doing stuff, but mostly off-loaded emissions…
Book Wars
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John B Thompson covers the rise of the ebook and what it meant for publishing. From the dominance of Amazon, to the metoric rise, then slow dwindle of ebook readers…there is something here for anyone that is interested in the industry of writing and books. Read my longer review of Book Wars Purchase Book Wars…
