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'Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.'
* Anything by QNTM. You can start with short story Lena which I think would appeal to HN crowd: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Both of these writers make phenomenal amount of their work available for free online; I've also purchased a lot of their hard-copies for friends :)
* Open Borders by SMBC guy. I'm a fairly liberal guy AND I'm an immigrant to North America, and still this very short read transformed my position on immigration: https://www.smbc-comics.com/openborders/
* SnowCrash and Neuromancer; have to put it out there as I re-read them every year or two - I know the story by heart but they are like places and towns and countries I like visiting for the atmosphere and company :)
* In that cyberpunk vein, I only recently read Hardwired and it was surprisingly good; first few pages felt like a bit of a variation on the theme, but then it built its own identity.
* The God Engines by Scalzi. ~50 page novella (novelette?). It's a... sci fi fantasy religious tale of space travel and manifested gods? It's different and inventive and sobering and one of those books that you put down after finishing and just stare at the ceiling for a bit. Cathartic.
* And for anybody who hasn't yet, Culture Series by Iain m. Banks. I don't personally love the very first entry, Consider Phlebas, but everything from Player of Games onward is just gold.
Gorgeous book and immensely satisfying for self-studying mushroom foraging because of its comprehensiveness (thousands of species) and novel accessible organization.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents I'm a person that struggles with boundary-setting and have spent numerous years in relationships that have left me as less-than I was before. Imagine people-pleasing to an absolute fault, and being more of a chameleon that adapts to avoid conflicts. This has led to problems of identity, and deriving my sense of worth through others which isn't healthy. Fortunately, I do…
This is a good book. Another one I would recommend from this genre is "The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now".
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Huh, I searched and his brand seems to be about talking to the "nice guys" who are all like "Why do women always pick jocks and not the nice guys like me?" Which is not a stereotype that I associate with compulsive people-pleasing, exactly... Compulsive self-pitying and limerence, more like.
Nice Guys in that context are often self-identified though, "I'm a nice guy, why do I keep getting rejected?". I'm sure it originated from rejections in the form of "You're a nice guy, but..."
The Cradle series by Will Wight. It's a Wuxia adapted for Western audiences. He has other great series; I liked the parallel Sea/Shadow trilogies a lot. Traveler's Gate series I enjoyed, but not as much as the rest. He recently also started a new series called Last Horizon; it's about space wizards and it's a bit whimsical, but fun. The Expanse series is great, but I reckon people already mentioned it elsewhere in th…
I keep hearing good things about Cradle, I’ll have to give that a read.
The Code Book by Simon Singh[1]. The book is very old, first published in 1999, but I did not know about it till my colleague brought it to work recently. The following stories are very interesting and read as detective novel: 1) how Enigma worked and how it's code was cracked; 2) how Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered, which appeared to be very common to Coptic language[2]; 3) how Linear B writing decoded[3], whic…
Meanwhile you will understand in depth how all the basic shit in cryptography works, how did they crack it and its history: ROT13,ENIGMA,OTP,PGP,DES,AES, what are public and private keys and digital signatures, what the hell is quantum cryptography... everything gets told in a perfect ELI5 manner without any knowledge prerequisite and its so damn interesting its hard to put down.
All in historical order, with names, stories, previous building blocks, interesting trivias... perfect book, 10/10.
The Plains - Gerald Murnane [1] -- liked it a lot, poetic, sad and thought-provoking Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto [2] -- very japanese crime story, liked it And my absolute delight: 50 Years of Text Games - Aaron A. Reed [3] -- I am just a sucker for everything text game/hypertext/interactive fiction. This book is amazing. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1593668 [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/…
The Goal. It's a book from the 1980's about operational management. In particular, it focuses on physical manufacturing. It's in the form of a fictitious personal tale. A plant manager struggles to save his plant from closure, and his marriage from falling apart. The lesson is about lean management. My main takeaway is the realization that when we try to optimize something, we focus on how to do something more effici…
The Phoenix Project is basically the same thing, but about software. I also found it more enjoyable to read. https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/
> “The Phoenix Project”, a popular business fable about DevOps, is an adaptation of “The Goal” by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt. They are virtually the same book. The twist it takes on “The Goal” is that instead of focusing on manufacturing, the “The Phoenix Project” focuses on IT.
https://sobination.com/2017/08/08/the-goal-and-the-phoenix-p...