Phil in SF commented on Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
This book is so good.
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Phil in SF reviewed The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it …
Required Reading
4 stars
This was literally required reading for my new job that I started last Monday. That being said, it seems pretty solid and I only have extremely small nitpicks around minor points.
My previous job that laid me off in January would be a an example in all the chapters of what not to do.
That being said, doing stuff the wrong way according to this book doesn't mean doing things the way the author recommends will result in an amazing organization. Since the new job supposedly organizes around the methods from The Advantage, I'll find out how well they work in practice.
Phil in SF finished reading The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter …
Phil in SF finished reading A Stroke of Dumb Luck by Shiloh Walker
A Stroke of Dumb Luck by Shiloh Walker
This edition is the free download provided on tor.com prior to sale via ebook platforms. — When a teenaged girl …
Phil in SF quoted Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
The tech feels too nice for this floor with its darkened windows and dust so thick you know it's at least partially the accumulated dead skin of the people on all the floors above.
— Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2) (8%)
Such a great sentence.
Phil in SF started reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable …
Phil in SF finished reading Hellacious California! by Gary Noy
Hellacious California! by Gary Noy
In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors…finer tobacco, …
Phil in SF reviewed Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world …
Surprisingly good after a bad beginning
4 stars
I started off really disliking this author's approach. The opening chapters are a diatribe against capitalism, and that almost always falls flat for me. Additionally, his early chapter describing a day in the life of some person on a bad day after the socialist revolution described a day of absolute hell, when I'm pretty sure he meant to describe something that wouldn't be too bad even on bad days. However, I was won over by his approach once he got to the chapters describing actual socialism. Unlike a lot of other writers that I've read and online socialists I've encountered, he actually engages with why some people are turned off by what is portrayed as socialism, and doesn't hand-wave away some of the things that give people pause.
This isn't the book that converts me to socialism, but it is a book that does make me look at it more …
I started off really disliking this author's approach. The opening chapters are a diatribe against capitalism, and that almost always falls flat for me. Additionally, his early chapter describing a day in the life of some person on a bad day after the socialist revolution described a day of absolute hell, when I'm pretty sure he meant to describe something that wouldn't be too bad even on bad days. However, I was won over by his approach once he got to the chapters describing actual socialism. Unlike a lot of other writers that I've read and online socialists I've encountered, he actually engages with why some people are turned off by what is portrayed as socialism, and doesn't hand-wave away some of the things that give people pause.
This isn't the book that converts me to socialism, but it is a book that does make me look at it more favorably.
Phil in SF finished reading Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.
Now with 50% …
Phil in SF commented on Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world …
ok. better.
Phil in SF commented on Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world …
About to start the sections where he describes the socialist agenda. Keeping my fingers crossed that this is actually inspiring.
Phil in SF commented on Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world …
seriously considering DNFing this. so far it's a day-in-the-life vision of socialist life that is anti-inspiring. lots of whining about liberals and Democrats. some painfully unfunny jokey asides (if his book inspires revolutions like the Communist Manifesto, then "how good would that be for getting invited onto podcasts?"). it appears the next three chapters are all about the evils of capitalism. GET TO THE POINT.
As much as I thought Malcolm Harris' book was mediocre, it was miles ahead of this so far.
Phil in SF commented on Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world …
Good lord this dude's vision of a day in the life under a socialist utopia is annoying AF.
Phil in SF started reading Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
Socialism... Seriously by Danny Katch
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.
Now with 50% …
Phil in SF finished reading Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
