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Although Lancer Kind lives in the Seattle area, he spends much of his time traveling to India, China, and Thailand. He's a 2003 graduate of the Clarion writer's workshop and a 2006 graduate of the Odyssey writer's workshop. As an active member of the science fiction community, he's spoken at NorwesCon, CascadiaCon, Foolscap, ReaderCon, and WorldCon (Denvention). When not writing, he's skateboarding, plotting how to make the world a better place, and studying Mandarin.
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	SCRUM NOIR: Mad Dog Mary episode 1 by Lancer Kind (Goodreads Author), Dhaval Panchal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honolulu Hottie 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SCRUM NOIR: A Silo to Hell! episode 1 by Lancer Kind (Goodreads Author), Dhaval Panchal 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scrum Noir: Bad Boys of Scrum (Scrum Noir MEGA Digest) by Lancer Kind (Goodreads Author), Dhaval Panchal liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SCRUM NOIR: Mad Dog Mary (Scrum Noir MEGA Digest Book 2) by Lancer Kind (Goodreads Author), Dhaval Panchal it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memory's Victims it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caveman Funk it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SCRUM NOIR: Mad Dog Mary, episode 3 by Lancer Kind (Goodreads Author), Dhaval Panchal it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agile Noir by Lancer Kind (Goodreads Author), Lilian Jiang (Illustrator), Ebin John Poovathany (Afterword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I’ve got some big news I’ve been waiting to share: my science fiction film THE XENOPHOBES is going to be available for rental on Amazon Prime Video starting March 6th. You can rent it for just $4.

Some of you have been following this journey since the beginning, and I can’t tell you how surreal it feels to finally say: you can watch it. I co-wrote this movie with director Hal Dace, and we shot it d

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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

by Iain M. Banks

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Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

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Lancer Kind shared a quote a fascibating read. thess are the timess to find solitions beyond capitalism as the world keeos heading in the post scarcity direction. “Scarcity still exists to some extent, but society produces more than enough to satisfy everyone’s basic needs. The frustrating thing is that we pretty much do that now, we just don’t allocate properly. And allocating properly cannot be done via central planning.” Rick Webb
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“group’s performance by 30 to 40 percent. The drop-off is consistent whether he plays the Jerk, the Slacker, or the Downer.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

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“This group performed well no matter what he did. Nick said it was mostly because of one guy. You can see this guy is causing Nick to get almost infuriated—his negative moves aren’t working like they had in the other groups, because this guy could find a way to flip it and engage everyone and get people moving toward the goal.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

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“Generally, it is only low-level languages that can be compiled into WebAssembly (such as C or Rust). However, there are a plethora of languages”
― Jimmy Engström, Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8

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“The Culture was different. Horza could see no end to its policy of continual and escalating interference. It could easily grow forever, because it was not governed by natural limitations. Like a rogue cell, a cancer with no “off” switch in its genetic composition, the Culture would go on expanding for as long as it was allowed to. It would not stop of its own accord, so it had to be stopped. This was a cause he”
― Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

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“Scarcity still exists to some extent, but society produces more than enough to satisfy everyone’s basic needs. The frustrating thing is that we pretty much do that now, we just don’t allocate properly. And allocating properly cannot be done via central planning.”
― Rick Webb, The Economics of Star Trek: The Proto-Post-Scarcity Economy

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