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The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, "The War of Art" is nothing less than …
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A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, "The War of Art" is nothing less than …
I enjoyed the additional exploration of the world as well as the characters. Getting to see the main three from the first book really grow and see where their actions take them, as well as getting the viewpoints of other characters and how Orka, Varg, and Elvar's actions affect others kept me engaged throughout.
I love Orka's chapters, it's very refreshing to see a mother be an absolute badass.
Book three when?
OneZero, Medium's official technology publication, is thrilled to announce a print-on-demand edition of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory …
This is the third volume of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother series, but it also serves as a standalone novel. It tells the story of Masha, who served as one of the antagonists in the first novel, Little Brother, and provided assistance to Marcus in the second, Homeland.
The story begins with Masha working for Xoth, a private company assisting a foreign government suppress protesters. After completing her work for the day aiding the authoritarian government, she moonlights by assisting a group of protestors, teaching them how to evade the monitoring.
If the first two books had Marcus as the protagonist, here we follow Masha Maximow, who was mostly “on the other side” working to help to suppress hacktivists, but at the same time supplied Marcus with sensitive data in the second book.
As the story unfolds, we see flashbacks of how Masha ended up working with Homeland Security …
Content contains a series of articles and presentations. Lots of topics are covered, including Facebook, RSS, and the adaptation of new technologies.
What felt like the most common and most impactful was the focus on DRM, specifically Cory's speech at Microsoft, explaining just how awful it is and why you'd be dumb to back it.
All in all, an enjoyable collection of essays to chew on regarding technology.
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the …
Very exciting read, found it hard to put this down! A fascinating world, told through the eyes of three different characters. Now on to the sequel!
In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of …
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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger …
"HARRY DRESDEN, CHICAGO'S ONLY PROFESSIONAL WIZARD, COULD BE ITS LAST Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long …