doing tiny goods.
i build open source software, write about anti-capitalist utopias, and am working on a video game called teen witch tactics.
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80% complete! lown has read 12 of 15 books.
"This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho …
An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a …
The Future of Another Timeline is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Annalee Newitz. The feminist time-travel adventure follows Tess, a …
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job …
What a weird book. Most of the rules are 'don't be a dick', but some are so simple and incisive that seeing them written down is genuinely helpful. Every anecdote is the same: "I was being a dick. Then I went to Dale's course, tried not being a dick, and what do you know: not only did I get what I wanted (money (it's always money)), but they even gave me more (money)!" At times, it's genuinely charming and the world it describes seems so much simpler than the present. I liked the bits where Carnegie remembers his own maxims and reminds the reader that they have to genuinely be nice to people, not just pretend to do it to get more money. But what stuck most for me was the 30s attitude to child discipline. All the stories about children go "we would beat and punish and scream at …
What a weird book. Most of the rules are 'don't be a dick', but some are so simple and incisive that seeing them written down is genuinely helpful. Every anecdote is the same: "I was being a dick. Then I went to Dale's course, tried not being a dick, and what do you know: not only did I get what I wanted (money (it's always money)), but they even gave me more (money)!" At times, it's genuinely charming and the world it describes seems so much simpler than the present. I liked the bits where Carnegie remembers his own maxims and reminds the reader that they have to genuinely be nice to people, not just pretend to do it to get more money. But what stuck most for me was the 30s attitude to child discipline. All the stories about children go "we would beat and punish and scream at our toddler/teenager, and weirdly that wasn't effective and they were sad?? Anyway, then we tried to 'listen' to their 'point of view', and if we managed to suspend our disbelief that they even HAVE a point of view or desires outside our own, they suddenly started behaving much better. Obviously after that it was back to the discipline, but there you go! Children! Who knew!". It explains a lot about older people, because they're the children of those children.
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You …
The prose poems were better than the verse but I really couldn't get into this. Great callout to Juliana Spahr though
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date …
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date …
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date …
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at it. Tech …
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at it. Tech …
Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches …
