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Eric Skiff

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Joined 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Co-Founder of Tanooki Labs and the Brooklyn Hackerspace NYC Resistor. I make CC-By chiptune music and I'm an aspiring near-future sci-fi author.

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John Brooks: Business Adventures (2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.)
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Amy Webb: The signals are talking (2016)
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Steve J. Martin, Robert Cialdini, Noah J. Goldstein: Yes! (2009, Free Press)

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Ian Mcdonald: Hopeland (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor Books)

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James Clear: Atomic Habits (EBook, 2022, Avery)
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Robert T. Kiyosaki: Rich dad's cashflow quadrant (2000, Warner Books)
John Scalzi: The Collapsing Empire (EBook, 2017, Tor Books)

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reviewed Hopeland by Ian Mcdonald

Ian Mcdonald: Hopeland (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor Books) 4 stars

I'll remember this book for a long time to come

5 stars

Ian McDonald has crafted a story that weaves across generations, families (chosen and born) and storylines in a way that feels both real and magical at the same time. It's a love letter to growing up, growing older, and changing.

I have a sense that this book was so close to what it could have been, but falters in the final chapters - that said, the real beauty is in the little moments and the world that he builds. The chase through the city, the coils, the music.

This is a legend in book form.

reviewed Summary of the 5 Am Club by Robin Sharma by Samuel Sorensen

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Samuel Sorensen: Summary of the 5 Am Club by Robin Sharma (2021, Independently Published)

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Review of 'Summary of the 5 Am Club by Robin Sharma' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

This book is so uniquely terrible that I'm here writing a review for it years later.

There must be something going on here - some cult or paid review scam pushing this anywhere over 1.5 stars average. This book is absolute tripe, and that's compared to the average writing in the self-help genre.

The dialog is completely unnatural, the characters make b-movie action writing seem like Tolstoy by comparison, and the "self-help" amounts to "You suck. You'll magically become the a different person if you get up stupid early" with some heavy doses of judgmental BS sprinkled throughout.