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Seriously one of the best I’ve come by this year. The audiobook was amazing. Writing was outstanding, crystal clear and horrific. Yum.

this was fucked up. I appreciate so much of the writing/narrative tactics but it still… ugh, it was hard to get through on a week that was itself really hard. The stuff of nightmares; an all too believable fate for us dipshitty humans. I wish the comic relief in the Rosencrantz & Guilderstern-esque PA bros had stuck around till the end - maybe I wouldn’t feel so gross now.

I loved this, especially the first 1/3 or so where you were really just hanging out with a bunch of weird bored teenagers that reminded me of myself at that age. The writing style is so great, just wry and dry and not afraid to be ridiculous. I appreciated the Cambridge parts and hope one day there will be a robot run pastry cafe called Cherry Pi

testing!

This book is used in a few different classes at mpow, and I’m glad it is. I’m giving a talk on Monday about how leaders are catalysts for change, and I am going to be meditating on a few of the ideas presented here - in particular, the need to break out of our positionality & perspective to change things in a non-destructive manner. It’s very prescient of the time we’re in now, and sad to think about how its warnings have been unheeded by engineers & technologists at a point where we’re more reliant on & worshipping of shitty models than ever.