Month: December 2017
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Books in Review, 2017 – Technology
In the final day of reviewing the 54 books that I’ve finished so far in 2017, I’m talking about books focused mainly on technology. I work in tech, I talk tech all the time, and one day I want to be known for writing about tech too. In the Beginning…Was the Command Line Neal Stephenson…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Autobiographies and Biographies
Today's books are mainly autobiographies, with one biography tossed in. I generally prefer autobiographies since they are direct from the source. While they lack the detachment and long view that a biography might possess, memoirs and personal accounts feel more visceral and real to me. Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Fiction
Today is a focus on the fiction books that I read this year. I read more fiction than I have in the past few years, as I got stuck in the rut of assuming that only non-ficton was worth the majority of my time. Stories, even those not based in fact, are useful thinking tools,…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Culture and Politics
Today's focus is on books that relate to culture or politics. I chose a mix of older and newer books this year. As the first few books show, the problems of yesterday are the problems of today in a different form. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads I'm going to…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Business Tactics
I don’t read many business books, but this year I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how my businesses are working out. I’ve been running Orange Blossom Media for about nine years now, and FixUpFox has been my main focus for the past two years. I’m working on updates to both, as well as…
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Returning to Writing with Reviews
I make a variety of pledges to myself every year, and one that consistently comes up is to write more. Not that Tweets, emails, instructions, and comments aren’t writing, but they aren’t the standalone pieces that I want to use as a catalogue of experiences. Looking back on the year, I published a grand total…