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Cixin Liu: The Dark Forest (Paperback, 2016, Tor Trade)

Sequel to The Three-Body Problem.

Well, that was underwhelming. I don’t enjoy the writing style very much but I still want to finish the series, so I think I’m going to read another story in between. The last book is even thicker than the first two and I imagine it will take me some will power to get through it. But who knows.

Derek Sivers: Anything You Want (Hardcover, english language, 2022, Hit Media)

Third Edition

“My tales of starting, building, and selling CD Baby, compressed into an …

Pretty interesing perspectives on entrepreneurship

It’s a pretty interesting perspective on entrepreneurship and ideas of building a business. Derek is an outlier in many things here, so it might be useful for entrepreneurs-to-be to get some ideas that are out of the norm. Plus it’s a short read; each article usually has 1-3 pages, so it can be used as a small reference as well.

Malaclypse the Younger: Principia discordia, or, How I found goddess and what I did to her when I found her (1990, Loompanics Unlimited)

The Principia Discordia is a Discordian religious text written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) …

Malaclypse the Younger: Principia discordia, or, How I found goddess and what I did to her when I found her (1990, Loompanics Unlimited)

The Principia Discordia is a Discordian religious text written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) …

Kamarulzaman Askandar, Teresita Quintos- Deles, Alan Doss, Fink Haysom, Mobina Jaffer, John Paul Lederach, Emma Leslie, Alvaro de Soto, Paride Taban, Heidi Tagliavini: Letters to a Young Mediator (2015, swisspeace – Swiss Peace Foundation)

Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet”, a collections of ten letters …

Review of “Letters to a young mediator”

I didn’t get very much from reading this. Any advice given seems either super specific to one of the mediator’s situations, or like a super generic list of virtues anybody ought to profit from.

Maybe I was just the wrong audience for it and didn’t get it—it’s short enough to find out yourself—but for me it didn’t do much at all.