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Kube

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Ann Blair: Too Much to Know (Paperback, 2011, Yale University Press)

The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a …

This book's anything but commonplace

Attentive, context-laden, surprising, and well worth reading front to back. I didn't expect to empathize with 16th-century reference book authors!

Dean Ray Johnson: Every Board Game Rulebook is Awful

Every This Essay Is Awesome

To paraphrase the driving question: "why is the modern board game rulebook so divorced from technical writing best practices?". The included Stardew Valley rulebook makes a wonderful case for a total rework of the rulebook format.

Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Paperback, 2001, Graphics Press)

The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of …

Hot gossip

Excellent fun for fans of the "subject matter expert disses their peers in highly specific ways" genre 📈

Xe Iaso: When Then Zen (EBook, 2019)

Meditation instructions from spiritual texts ripped out of the contexts of their spirituality and presented …

If read then good

A thoughtful, approachable overview of various meditation techniques... and a playful exploration of Gherkin :)