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Matt K

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Calvin Kasulke: Several People Are Typing (Hardcover, 2021, Doubleday) 3 stars

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF.

Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, …

I can help by answering simple questions about how this novel works!

4 stars

I’m just a bot though!

Gerald doesn’t have legs anymore, he’s trapped inside Slack!

This story is told entirely in Slack Messages, if you need more help, try our help center for loads of useful information about this story!

I’ve searched for more information about the dead dogs and the howling outside, maybe these articles will help:

  • This novel made me literally LOL
  • It hits close to home
  • The bits stay fresh and do not get old!
Calvin Kasulke: Several People Are Typing (Hardcover, 2021, Doubleday) 3 stars

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF.

Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, …

should file a ticket with google suite maybe would be a real significant bug I'm checking their troubleshooting page rn and it doesn't look like there's a section dedicated to users getting Tron'd

Several People Are Typing by  (9%)

This would be a really significant bug!

Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker (Paperback, 1975) 5 stars

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and …

Robert Moses had always displayed a genius for adorning his creations with little details that made them fit in with their setting, that made the people who used them feel at home in them. There was a little detail on the playhouse-comfort station in the Harlem section of Riverside Park that is found nowhere else in the park. The wrought-iron trellises of the park's other playhouses and comfort stations are decorated with designs like curling waves. The wrought-iron trellises of the Harlem playhouse-comfort station are decorated with monkeys.

The Power Broker by  (Page 560)

Holy shit. Robert Caro gives us pages detailing the sweeping wonder of the west side improvements, shows us all the majesty Moses was capable of. Then he very carefully points out the boundaries of that wonder. The parks NOT built and who they weren’t built for. Where the money was spent and where it was saved. And then this is just extra nasty. It takes it from neglect to malice.

Ryan North, Ryan North: How to Invent Everything (Paperback, 2019, Riverhead Books) 4 stars

The only book you need if you're going back in time

What would you do …

Incredible mini school in the best way

4 stars

In the conceit of having to reinvent the whole of civilization, we uncover how so many things that are infrastructure are not magic, how they work, how difficult simple things are and how long we missed out on making simple innovations for eras when everything we needed WAS RIGHT THERE.

Consistently funny all the way through.

Ryan North, Ryan North: How to Invent Everything (Paperback, 2019, Riverhead Books) 4 stars

The only book you need if you're going back in time

What would you do …

The Wright brothers produced the first manned heavier-than-air self-powered flight. The 1874 CE machine was steam powered but could fly only after ramping off a ski jump, and then gliding to the ground: the steam engine on board was insufficient to sustain flight. Speaking of the Wrights, once they'd invented (and patented) airplanes, they stopped innovating and spent most of their time suing not just their competitors but even individual pilots who dared to fly non-Wright planes. These lawsuits had a ruinous effect on American aviation: by January 1912 CE, in France (where the Wrights also held a patent, but where its enforcement had been stayed repeatedly) more than 800 aviators were making flights each day, compared to only 90 in the United States. The lawsuits ended only in 1917 CE, when the US government legally forced airplane manufacturers to share their patents, but the damage was done. When the United States entered World War I in that same year, it was with French-built airplanes: all American aircraft were deemed unacceptably inferior.

How to Invent Everything by , (Page 298)

This seems like such a bang on damnation of our intellectual property regime.

The money seems to be in getting there first and pulling up your ladder!