I just finished reading "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick and immediately bought 2 other books by him. If you have ever had a customer conversation and left with a slightly empty feeling this is the pill you are looking for
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#232Dungeon Crawler Carl audio.
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#233HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian, it's the 3rd novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series. It's the series that the movie Master and Commander is based on. It's about a ship captain and his doctor friend and their naval adventures in the early 1800s.
Aaj, I love this series! I just started the last book :^) it's quite a journey If anyone wants to pick it up, my main advice is to keep a cheat sheet of naval terms with you
Wow, the last one! I will get there some day!
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#234I am reading The Laws Of Human Nature by Robert Greene. I love everything that I have read from him.
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#235Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. There's a series of games based on the books but I'm enjoying the storytelling in the book far more. Basic premise is after nuclear war survivors have built a new society inside of the tunnels and stations of the Moscow metro system. There's mutants and other threats, but I don't want to spoil too much.
Isn't there also a video game but the same name?
Yeah, it's based on the book.
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#236A deepness in the sky - Vernor Vinge It's actually too good. I have a habit of reading before going to sleep, and this book is so hard to put down that I am becoming sleep deprived
This is on my audible queue. I bought it after a fire upon the deep. Great reader.
So far its more interesting than fire. Really recommend it
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#237The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu. I loved The Three-Body Problem which I read last month, can't say I'm loving this one, just enjoying it, but I'm only at around 25%.
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#238Papert: Mindstorms
Lem: Summa Technologiae
Barber: Strong Democracy
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
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#239Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh. I really like it. There are lots of popular science books out there, but very few popular math ones. I am grateful that this exists. Read the author's Code Book before. Liked that one, too. I was also taking Cryptography and Cybersecurity as one of my Master's electives. This book does not cover the journey of solving the Fermat's Last Theorem narrowly, but broadly covers a lot o…
That reminds me that I have enjoyed all of Singh's books. But I recall he was sued for his last one and has not published in over 10 years?
He won the case in the end. But he must have had a few brown trouser moments along the way, UK libel being what it is. IIRC it also ended with some UK reforms to libel law.
He did say in an interview somewhere that good ideas for books only along once in a while.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
That reminds me that I have enjoyed all of Singh's books. But I recall he was sued for his last one and has not published in over 10 years?
Yes, the vicious lawsuit by chiropractors may have been enough to turn him off publishing. I sometimes hear him as a radio guest. It seems he went on to work on STEM policy and founded a couple of educational math paths. It’s a shame he seems to have discarded his website. Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme https://uas.ac.uk/about-uas/ Parallel https://parallel.org.uk/
My son did the free weekly parallel.org.uk questions for several years, which I thought were excellent. I think it definitely helped with his interest in STEM (he is now planning to study aerospace engineering at Uni). Would recommend Parallel to anyone with a child who is or might be interested in maths/science/engineering.