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Recent Books – Thomas Perry, John Scalzi, Disappearing Spoon

  • Posted on July 18, 2019
  • by john

The Old Man by Thomas Perry. A lazy suspense novel, unimpressed. The action moves along ok but the characters are tissue thin. And when I see a character arrive in…

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Recent Books — Walkaway, Less, Babel

  • Posted on July 4, 2019
  • by john

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow.  My first Doctorow, and I am not sure I will do any more.  A hash of steampunk, cyberpunk, biohacking, post-gender, libertarian themes all jammed into a…

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Recent Books — Genius Plague, Empty Planet, Magpie Murders

  • Posted on June 16, 2019
  • by john

The Genius Plague by David Walton. Award Winner, and has some great concepts, but wasn’t an amazing story. Fun but forgettable. Empty Planet by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson.  Very…

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Recent Books — Good Strategy Bad Strategy, Helicopter Heist, Snap

  • Posted on June 2, 2019June 2, 2019
  • by john

Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. I hate pop business books but this book does not belong in that category. A timeless approach to the basics of strategy, whether…

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Recent Books — Thinking in Bets, Change Agent, Mueller Report

  • Posted on May 8, 2019May 11, 2019
  • by john

Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke. Really great book about decision making, and how to think probabilistically about decisions. Very good. Change Agent by Daniel Suarez.  Suarez is always super…

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How much software should a car contain?

  • Posted on April 26, 2019April 26, 2019
  • by john

In a recent article about the latest VW Golf, the product manager was quoted “Already now there are ten times more lines of code in the latest Golf than in…

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Recent Books — Our Towns, Those Who Knew, Senlin Ascends

  • Posted on April 6, 2019April 6, 2019
  • by john

Our Towns by James and Deborah Fallows. An uplifting walk thru towns and cities across America, each of which is finding its way and wrestling successfully with renewal, growth, education,…

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Recent Books — The Library Book, Rules of Civility, Gorey

  • Posted on February 24, 2019February 24, 2019
  • by john

The Library Book by Susan Orlean. A peek inside the history, operations, and stories behind the LA Public Library, written by someone who loves books and libraries. Really enjoyable. Rules…

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Recent Books — Transit, Paying for the Party, 1491

  • Posted on February 2, 2019February 2, 2019
  • by john

Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit by Christof Spieler. Oh I love maps, and this book is chock full of them, and a great overview of transit…

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The best books on economics in the real world

  • Posted on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019
  • by john

These seem interesting — from five books

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Recent Books — Age of Fracture, Exit/Voice/Loyalty, Medusa Uploaded

  • Posted on January 19, 2019January 19, 2019
  • by john

Age of Fracture by Daniel Rodgers. I really really wanted to like this book, it is well-regarded and seems to have an interesting thesis about what has happened in the…

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Recent Books — Bannerless, Order of the Day, Beatles, IQ, Electric State

  • Posted on January 7, 2019January 7, 2019
  • by john

Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn. Excellent detective tale set in a future America devastated by ecological change. The protagonist is an investigator who travels town to town, and finds herself caught…

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My favorite books of the year — 3 fiction, 5 nonfiction

  • Posted on January 1, 2019January 1, 2019
  • by john

I just reviewed all my books I read over the last year. Here are the ones that stick with me. Fiction: All Systems Red by Martha Wells. The first in…

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Dead of Winter — best board game this holiday season

  • Posted on January 1, 2019January 1, 2019
  • by john

Every year we play a couple board games over the holiday season. This year’s winner was Dead of Winter. The combination of collaborative play with individual secret objectives is great…

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Recent Books — Darkling Sea, Guest Room, Bring Me Back, Army of None, How Fascism Works

  • Posted on December 27, 2018December 27, 2018
  • by john

A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias.  Ugh, how did this thing get decent reviews?  Reads like Asimov from early 70s which I enjoyed when I was 12 but hasn’t…

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Recent Books — Ghettoside, Murderbot, Gone World, Darkest Secret

  • Posted on November 30, 2018
  • by john

Ghettoside by Jill Leovy.  In depth story about homicides in the poorer parts of LA.  The author makes the strong case that the high rate of crime is a consequence…

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Recent Books — Aware, Buddha’s Brain, Missing, Presumed, Our Little Secret

  • Posted on November 5, 2018
  • by john

Aware by Daniel J. Siegel.  A recommended text on meditation, but too much handwavey pseudo science for me.  Did not find worthwhile at all, rather found it annoying. Buddha’s Brain…

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Recent Books — Waking Up White, Beyond the Pale, Light Years, Koryta, Murderbot

  • Posted on October 29, 2018
  • by john

Waking Up White by Debby Irving.  A lot to process in this book.  I am probably just a few steps along the path to really understanding race in the US…

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Recent Books — Children of Time, Educated, Fear

  • Posted on September 21, 2018
  • by john

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.  Award winner, and an interesting precept about a future human diaspora to the stars, but oh my gosh did it drag on.  Editor please.…

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Recent Books — Ghost Map, American War, Command and Control

  • Posted on September 2, 2018September 2, 2018
  • by john

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. Great retelling of the cholera epidemic in 1854 London, and the detective workto find the source. We look back andthe infectious mechanism for cholera…

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