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Recent Books — Sharpe’s Rifles, Business Adventures, Aosawa Murders, Ministry for the Future

  • Posted on January 28, 2021
  • by john

Sharpe’s Rifles by Bernard Cornwell. Enjoyable historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, a part of a series detailing Sharpe’s rise. Good character, good pacing. Business Adventures by John Brooks.…

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Visual Cortex, Lidar, Mealworms, Rivers Cuomo, Watermarks — things I learned this week

  • Posted on January 24, 2021
  • by john

We have been moving houses this week so not as much time as I would like to dig into some things but still a few nuggets. The information passed between…

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Strategy, gaming economy, Videoscribe, eleemosynary, best practices — things I learned about this week

  • Posted on January 17, 2021
  • by john

Your strategy is what you ship.  I didn’t learn this so much as I relearned it.  The story of the Edsel in Business Adventures is instructive. The Ford team dreamed…

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Things I learned this week — clams, color perception, tuned mass dampers, symmetry

  • Posted on January 11, 2021
  • by john

I aspire to be a lifelong learner. I do read a lot — books and online — and I find increasingly that if I don’t take a few moments to…

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Recent Books — End of Everything, 99% Invisible City, Born Standing Up

  • Posted on January 6, 2021
  • by john

The End of Everything by Katie Mack. In the midst of all our current political and social turmoil, you can read this book and either a) have even more to…

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My Best Books of 2020

  • Posted on January 1, 2021
  • by john

This year I read or attempted to read 75 books.  There were some dogs but also some great ones.  I tried to come up with the “best book of the…

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Recent Books — The Adventure Zone, Agent Sonya

  • Posted on January 1, 2021
  • by john

The Adventure Zone by the McElroy family, Carey Pietsch illustrator. Gets great reviews but pretty thin gruel for me. I probably would have thought it hilarious when I was young.…

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Recent Books — Slow Horses, Intuition Pumps, Locke Lamora, Solutions and Other Problems

  • Posted on December 26, 2020
  • by john

Slow Horses by Mick Herron. Great tale of intrigue inside MI5. Started a little choppy but then the story took off and the characters rose to the fore. Intuition Pumps…

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Recent Books — Dragon Factory, Salvation of a Saint, North Water, Weapons of Math Destruction

  • Posted on November 28, 2020
  • by john

The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry. Would have been a good graphic novel — evil albino twins, gene-engineered monsters (scorpion-dogs!), Nazis, a plot to end the world. Just a so-so…

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Recent Books — Collapse of an Empire, Ten Thousand Doors, Obstacle Is the Way

  • Posted on November 6, 2020
  • by john

Collapse of an Empire by Yegor Gaidar. Good look at the unraveling of the USSR, it’s inherent fragility, and the human costs of the unraveling. Recommended by my Russian friends.…

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Recent Books — The Blizzard, White Supremacy, One Billion Americans

  • Posted on October 21, 2020
  • by john

The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin. A book about a terrible storm written by a Russian author? I expected some serious gloom, but this story was trippy and strange. Memorable but…

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Recent Books — Kent State, Eternal Life, Native Star, The Snakehead

  • Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020
  • by john

Kent State by Derf Backderf. The Kent State shootings stand tall in my memory, but I don’t think I ever knew all the details of the events. This is an…

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Recents Books — American Sickness, Origin of Wealth

  • Posted on September 26, 2020
  • by john

An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal. An anecdote-driven walk through the dysfunctional health care industry. Some enraging anecdotes, and some useful how-to’s at the end. Would have liked even more…

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Recent Books — Three Body Problem, Dune, Escape Room

  • Posted on September 16, 2020September 16, 2020
  • by john

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. This didn’t really float my boat, I suspect the difficulty of translating from Chinese is significant, it is not just the straight translation but…

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Recent Books — Caste, Pew, Team of Vipers

  • Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020
  • by john

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. Pretty damning. If you still somehow believe that America is the perfect embodiment of the “shining city upon a hill”, this book will but that notion…

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Recent A/V recommendations — Euphoria, Folklore, Ted Lasso

  • Posted on September 1, 2020
  • by john

Expanding beyond books! Euphoria is an explosive series. High school like I never experienced, kids struggling with big issues, and I was rooting for them all and blown away by…

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Recent Books — Disappearing Earth, Mr. Penumbra, James Lee Burke, The Spinoza Problem

  • Posted on August 26, 2020
  • by john

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips. I have read 0 books set in Kamchatka, an interesting look into the lives of isolated and distressed women on the peninsula. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour…

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Recent Books — Night Boat to Tangier, Story, Scalzi, Shakedown, Stendhal

  • Posted on July 21, 2020
  • by john

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. Another great novel by Barry, two men’s lives explored over the course of an evening, great characters and dialog. Story by Robert McKee.…

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Recent Books — The Price of Time, Transitions, DODO, Dark Money

  • Posted on July 5, 2020
  • by john

The Price of Time by TIm Tigner. What a crappy suspense story. Poor characters, poor plot, just bad. I don’t know why I stuck with it, I am embarrassed. Transitions…

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Books I have recently rediscovered — Gould, Hesse, Chernow, Hofstadter, Burroughs, and more

  • Posted on June 27, 2020June 28, 2020
  • by john
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