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 2021
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The Burning God
Rin decides to rally all the poor people of the south to take over the Dragon Lord
All These Worlds
Bobs have to fight the Aliens, and help humans adapt to another planet. Bobs get attach to their ancestors, and at the same time discover that price of eternity.
For We Are Many
Bobs go back to earth and discovers they really need help, as a nuclear winter threatens to wipe out humanity. A bob also discovers a planet where there is a life that looks li...
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Young CEO dies young, but got to have his brain frozen. He is revived centuries later and learns that Earth is not going so well. He is to be the AI behind a spaceship to find ...
Numbers don't lie
Vaclac Smil, a mathematician/environment specialists analyses 71 themes in a very short manner related to math/engineering/social sciences/environment.
Termination Shock
A rich Texan who has invested in real estate in Houston, decides to build giant sulfure shooting guns in the texas, to cool down the earth.
He invites the queen of the netherl...
Prelude to Foundation
Hari Seldon proves that psycho-history can exist. He just doesn't know how it works. He is sent on a quest to find how to make it work.
He thinks he needs to look at the origin...
Diaspora
Three types of humans exist: digitalized, cyborgs and dna-enhanced. The protagonists are digitalized and one is actually constructed as a digital being. They become a bit frien...
Shape Up
How they ship products and features at Basecamp.
• Shaped vs unshaped work
• setting appetites instead of estimates
• Designing at the right level of abstraction
• Conception ...
Fugitive Telemetry
Murderbot is on a "free" planet, working for his favorite group. This time though it is a murder mystery.
Network Effect
Murderbot is now working for the humans. He is sent on a survey mission, but as they come back, they discover that ART needs help. His crew got kidnapped by Aliens and Murderbo...
Exit Strategy
So murderbot goes back to help the group of humans that "rescued" him from servitude. He deduces that his preferred human has been kidnapped and works on freeing her.
Rogue Protocol
Murderbot volume 3. He finally lands on the asteroid where he committed attrocities. There he comes to understand that the company actually made him kill everybody as to hide th...
Artificial Condition
Murderbot is free and want to explore his past. To do so, he takes on a job as security consultant. In his adventure, he meets a spaceship that is sentient, that he calls ART,...
Ruby Under a Microscope
It's a book that explains how is ruby working and what are, as a programming language, it's particularities.
The Eye of the Heron
6000 colonists on a planet. 2/3 are exiled criminals, the other third are exile pacifists. The pacifists, 80 years after having arrived, want to be independent..
All Systems Red
A survey of a planet turns into a a skirmish between half-human battle bots.
The protagonist is a battlebot that managed to be free of its governing module.
the beginning place
A man, I forgot his name, with an unhappy mother who he feels responsible for, discover another place, calm, where time is slower. He encounters a girl there, and she is also i...
Of ants and Dinosaurs
Ants and Dinosaurs are in alliances: ants are the scientists/mathematicians and the dinosaurs have the imaginations.
Dinosaurs are not caring about the environment and ants a...
The Ministry of the Future
In 2024, the Paris Agreement creates an office, un-officially called the ministry of the future. At little after that, and unrelated to the creation of the ministry, a heat wav...
Hold Up The Sky
It's a collection of short-stories by Liu Cixin .
• The Village Teacher: The story of a provincial village with a devoted teacher. Aliens discover the notion of teacher as a wa...
The Dragon Republic
Following on the adventure of Rin. In this book she defends the Dragon Warlord, who allies himself with the westerners, against the Empress. She hesitates wither she's defendin...
Originals
"How non-conformists change the world"
Individual actions:
1. Question the defaults
2. Triple the number of ideas you create
3. Immerse yourself in a new domain
4. Procras...
The Poppy War
The book is set in a fantasy china at the beginning of the 20th century. We follow a girl as she gets into the military academy and discovers that she can calls on the power of...
A desolation called peace
So following up the events of a memory called empire, our ambassador and her connection at the empire are sent on the front of a war against an alien species. The species is di...
The Effective Engineer
What's an Effective Engineer?
• They are the people who get things done. Effective Engineers produce results.
Adopt the Right Mindsets
Focus on High Leverage Activities
• Lev...
Hothouse
In a world where the sun stopped moving, we follow some humans. One human in particular is still curious enough to travel around. He founds a morsel that talks to him and is so...
Cage of Soul
In the future, very very far in the future, humanity has overused all its resources.
The only thing left is one city, of ten thousands inhabitants, and its prison in the jungle...
The Unicorn Project
A team of developers gets frustrated about how stuck their company is concerning software projects. The protagonist is a competent developer who takes a blame for a bug she solv...