48 books
—
45 voters
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
“The comments section on the Marginal Revolution blog post about the Death Star calculation is a case in point. Here, even now, sober economists hash out questions about the variables: Whether to factor in the slave labor of Wookiees (which was partly responsible for its construction, according to the novel Death Star). Or whether you could fund the whole thing from taxes on the population of Coruscant (which is said to have a trillion inhabitants, thus funding the Death Star at a cost of roughly $8,000 per person). Or whether a quality assurance engineer should have nixed a thermal exhaust port two meters wide that led directly to the main reactor shaft, and what effect this oversight might have had on the Empire’s chances of getting an insurance policy on its second Death Star.”
― How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise
― How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise
50 books to read before you die
— 11784 members
— last activity Oct 20, 2025 07:00AM
These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Gra ...more
SCIFI SNAK
— 524 members
— last activity Oct 20, 2025 02:39PM
Gruppe på dansk om bøger vi diskuterer i podcasten SCIFI SNAK. Drop et forslag.
UK Amazon Kindle Forum
— 6622 members
— last activity 1 hour, 21 min ago
Where every hour is happy hour.
Andreas’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Andreas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Andreas
Lists liked by Andreas




































