Saturday, October 24, 2020

Book list

I update this periodically. My Kobo has recently been resurrected from the trash heap as the result of a firmware upgrade so this list is fairly new.

In Progress

  • Soonish (where's the future we predicted?)

On Deck

Suggestions?

Read

Fiction

  • The Masque of the Red Death (part of the anthology Radicalized by Cory Doctorow)
  • Radicalized (part of the anthology Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
  • Model Minority (part of the anthology adicalized by Cory Doctorow)
  • Unauthorized Bread (part of the anthology Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

Non-Fiction

  • The Upstarts (Uber and AirBnB histories)
  • Head In The Cloud (Why know anything when you can look up everything?)
  • The Four Horsemen (FAAG economics)
  • Everybody Lies (statistical analysis of lying)

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