Required reading for everyone!
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I wonder if there's a digital version of that book
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@Zerosquare said in Required reading for everyone!:
I wonder if there's a digital version of that book
It's already a book? Not a collection of scrolls?
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I've recently exhausted my supply of podcasts, so I was thinking of forgetting to cancel an Audible free trial.
Any (audio)book recommendations?
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@DogsB said in Required reading for everyone!:
There's a prequel about being a harder reader, and a sequel about being stronger.
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@Gąska it's all the same book, the secret is to just read it one more time.
I'll show myself out.
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Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison.
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@DogsB does it say what I think it says or is it actually interesting?
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@DogsB wow they really took liberties in the film adaptation.
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@DogsB can confirm, this is a seminal work.
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@DogsB "Esay"
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I read this a few years ago, but in light of the recent-ish NFT kerfuffle I’ve been going through it again and definitely recommend it. It’s nicely short (“lightweight”), though obviously couldn’t have covered the NFT craze. There’s no shortage of the TDWTF-esque “these people are unambiguously moronic” tone you’d expect regarding cryptocurrencies, with plenty of interesting stories and extensive citation for such a short book.
Also, a Thing That Reminds You of a WDTWTF Member:
Blockchain marketers consistently claim some prominent company “is using” a blockchain when there’s just been a press release that they’re running a vendor trial, or “investigating” running a future trial. This is because an “investigation” is cheap – this book is a legitimate business expense for this purpose, by the way – and worth the PR value in showing you’re fully up to date with current buzzwords.
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@TwelveBaud said in Required reading for everyone!:
@DogsB "Esay"
See? It's that bad already! Our finest minds are fucking morons! Also, they're morons.
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@DogsB I don't buy that nose for a second.
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@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
@DogsB I don't buy that nose for a second.
Sorry, but you don't get to pick your nose here.
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@DogsB Why didn't you like it? I have it on my to-read list.
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@Gąska said in Required reading for everyone!:
@DogsB does it say what I think it says or is it actually interesting?
You've lived through most of it so there isn't much need to read it. Basically, the death of the nation-state, conservatives and Christians are spineless cowards that need to regain their balls but declining birthrates makes it all a moot point and is why Europe needs migration.
@blek said in Required reading for everyone!:
@DogsB Why didn't you like it? I have it on my to-read list.
There's a good story in there but it's horribly written/translated. I just can't read French authors. They seem to need about three pages of exposition to get to a point. This guy needs about twenty. I thought Irish people were talkative but the French take the piss.
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@DogsB said in Required reading for everyone!:
They seem to need about three pages of exposition to get to a point.
Yeah no shit. How long does it take to kill some asshole on a beach and get hanged. Fuck.
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This particular visit has, of course, nothing to do with the promised Advent, when, according to the programme, 'after the tribulation of those days,' He will appear 'coming in the clouds of heaven.' For, that 'coming of the Son of Man,' as we are informed, will take place as suddenly 'as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west.' No; this once, He desired to come unknown, and appear among His children, just when the bones of the heretics, sentenced to be burnt alive, had commenced crackling at the flaming stakes. Owing to His limitless mercy, He mixes once more with mortals and in the same form in which He was wont to appear fifteen centuries ago. He descends, just at the very moment when before king, courtiers, knights, cardinals, and the fairest dames of court, before the whole population of Seville, upwards of a hundred wicked heretics are being roasted, in a magnificent auto-da-fe ad majorem Dei gloriam, by the order of the powerful Cardinal Grand Inquisitor.
ed. i told you to post the whole thing. nobody likes excerpts.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare you want something even more shocking? A company culture training that's ACTUALLY USEFUL.
An in-depth dive into the differences between American and Indian ways of working and communication. Full of useful instructions how to interact with "the other side", with realistic examples of potential problems.
The training was based on this book.
Assuming the content is mostly the same as my training -
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How people think, lead and get things done
Does it include people of descent?