Reading notes
What I've been reading.
Books I've finished, with a short synopsis and what I actually took away from each one.
Read in 2020
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Space Opera
Eurovision in Space in the style of Douglas Adams
Exhalation
8 short stories fantasy and sci-fi.
• The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate : about time travel
• Exhalation: about entropy and life from a robotic world
• What's Expected of...
a memory called empire
An newly ambassador from a space-stations confederations is sent to an empire. These stations have the particularity of adding an "image" of a person unto them. She received th...
Infinite Detail
It's the story of the before and after of a virus that takes down every networks. The before is a dystopia of constant control by a few big tech companies with the accumulation ...
The Old Drift
The saga of three families in mainly Zambia, passing by England, Italy and India.
It starts at the end of the 19th century, and goes on with chapters of the life of family nu...
So good they can't ignore you
Go through 4 rules:
1. Don't follow your passion:
Passion comes afterwards
2. "Be so Good they ignore you":
Invest in your career capital. Do this by hav...
Devolution
An Eco Village in America get stuck and technology less after a volcano. Then a Sasquatch tribe hunts them
The Phoenix Project
the subtitle is: "A Novel about It, Devops, and helping your business Win" -- It's not badly written, but not great either. It's really a book about the position of IT within co...
Stories of you life and others
Collection of short stories :
- Tower of Babylon: great story about language and recursion
- Understand: I don't remember
- Division by zero: a mathematician disproof mathema...