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Firstborn might be the weakest story here so far. It’s hard to root for a character who has so little hope and agency and has given up on fighting it.

Defending Elysium is fire

Designer brains. Nice.

Geeking out for Greek

Lithuanian! This is why I’m here. Let’s go!

So ready for Sanskrit

Logics of change and cyclical dialects are fun to think about, but man are they messy for managers trying to identify useful and actionable ideas.

Wait, so Celtic used to be all over the place? Mind blown.

I need a map or maybe a globe.

I think this is a book I will be thinking about for the rest of my life. I love how each chapter is a different perspective on the same topic. And, it’s so well written that I didn’t realize until halfway through that it is literally a book long literature review on organizational behavior. Well, I have encountered many of the ideas in this book separately, having them together is re-organizing my thinking.

Done with the chapter on power and I feel exhausted just thinking about it all.

Now we’re talking! Ancient Hittite & a Lithuanian-born UCLA linguist. Fascinating stuff.

I am enjoying the spunky cat lady enemies to lovers weird magic story. Let’s be honest, we are mostly here for the cats. Writing is a bit on the tell-y side.

Finished Snapshot. Fun thriller. Realized today that I didn’t mark that I had started this book back in January. Didn’t pick it up again till I was on a flight.

A twelfth of the way into the book, and it’s called the Introduction. 😳

How fast can Sevro run?

Love when a dystopian story goes from defeat the enemy to overthrow the system.

It’s fascinating to read, perspectives on the brain as an organizational metaphor, and then to have that metaphor expanded by talking about “emerging” technologies like “the Internet”. While the book shows its age in chapter 4, it also is impressively perceptive into the issues and foundations that would underlie the future of the technology.

The back half of act 3 felt rushed to me, but the story is still fun.

I was wondering if a twist like this was coming

Love the idea that all Theories are Metaphors. Reminds me of the idea of Leaky Abstractions from coding.

As a father & scientist, I get the urge to data gather on your newborn’s life, but this guy takes it to a new level

The highs and lows of discovery are so real