A great read that tells the story of the crucial moments between August to December 1991 that lead to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Recommended read!
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borgbookcollective wants to read Dead Simple Python by Jason C. McDonald
borgbookcollective wants to read Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
Terms From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and …
borgbookcollective finished reading The Last Empire by Serhii Plokhy
borgbookcollective reviewed The Last Empire by Serhii Plokhy
The Last Months of the Soviet Union
5 stars
borgbookcollective wants to read The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers is a 1998 book by …
borgbookcollective started reading X64 Assembly Language Step-By-Step by Jeffrey Duntemann
borgbookcollective started reading Dead Simple Python by Jason C. McDonald
Crisp, clear intro to JSON
5 stars
I really enjoyed Lindsay's writing style, it hits the essentials of JSON without any filler. It would be great if more technical books were written in this style!
borgbookcollective finished reading Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation by Lindsay Bassett
borgbookcollective wants to read Hackers by Steven Levy
borgbookcollective wants to read Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard, Karen Boyd, Ben Gutzler, and 1 other
“Ross Ulbricht had been doing all his Silk Road work from his main daily laptop. One afternoon in September 2013, …
borgbookcollective wants to read Open Circuits by Windell Oskay
Open Circuits by Windell Oskay, Eric Schlaepfer
Open Circuits is a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden …
borgbookcollective reviewed Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
A delightful read!
5 stars
It's refreshing to read a book that encourages exploring childlike curiosities to problems instead of relying solely on the cold, mechanical, unimaginative steady drumbeat of logic.
This passage nicely summed up the theme of the book for me (replace "messages" for ideas and it still applies beautifully):
"Quite simply, all powerful messages must contain an element of absurdity, illogicality, costliness, disproportion, inefficiency, scarcity, difficulty or extravagance - because rational behaviour and talk, for all their strengths, convey no meaning."