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The Siren’s Call – Chris Hayes
The Siren’s Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don’t want. We don’t really want to doom scroll, but it’s hard to fight the generated content that gets put in front of us because it’s just compelling enough and provides just the right amount of dopamine hits to…
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Making it So – Patrick Steward
This was a wonderful look back at the career of Patrick Stewart. I love that he was comfortable enough to share many embarrassing stories, and reflect on how uptight he was in the beginning of his career wishing he could go back and get himself to lighten up a bit. I also loved the genuine…
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Onyx Storm – Rebecca Yarros
This book is much slower for the first 2/3rds than the first two are. The world now knows about the real fight against Venin, and has some type of truce between formerly warring nations to push back the true enemy of all life, the Venin who steal magic directly from your body or the earth.…
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Iron Flame – Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame continues from the cliff hanger in Fourth Wing, with Violet coming to grips that her brother is in fact alive and the love of her life is leading a revolution because society has been deceived about the truth of the war they’re fighting. At times Violet feels a bit off in this book…
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Think Again – Adam Grant
In a world that seems to be going to hell in a hand basket maybe we need to stop valuing pure intelligence or money as a goal and instead look towards the ability to abandon ideas that are no longer valid and relearn when presented with new information. That is the goal of Adam Grant’s…
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Wind and Truth – Brandon Sanderson
The Fifth instalment of Sanderson’s Stormlight archive starts to reach further beyond Roshar and bring the full Cosmere into the folds of this story. At over 1300 pages, I’ve spent quite a while working through this and it never felt like a slog. I’d still say the first few books were my favourite as we…
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The Big Fix – Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar
Denise and Vass us this book to take a look at the regulatory framework that Canada uses to evaluate competition and monopoly powers. While I knew that many companies owned many brands that “competed” with each other, this did bring more of that to the forefront. There really is only 2 or 3 companies that…
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Co-Intelligence – Ethan Mollick
AI has come for our world, whether we like it or not. In Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick, takes a positive look at what AI could mean for our lives. He explores how to maximize it’s effectiveness for our productivity and dreams of a “better” world where AI lets us get more done with less effort, and…
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A System for Writing – Bob Doto
Bob Doto’s, A System for writing is a good entry into the world of note-taking books. He is concise and direct while still hitting all the high points I think need to be hit to create a good practice of taking notes and producing writing/content from them. We both agree that a key point is…
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The Language of the Night – Ursula K. Le Guin
This is a compilation of many essays by Le Guin on writing and writing science fiction in particular. She deals with the pronouns used in sci-fi to describe characters, with special updated notes covering her newer thoughts on “he” as a gender neutral pronoun (she doesn’t believe it is in the 1980’s like she did…
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