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A little “new-age”-y towards the end, but overall good advice. I liked the imagery of his virtual boardroom with all his idols doling out advice.

All it takes to “Think and Grow Rich” is a strong desire for success, a solid understanding of what your goal is, a willingness to sacrifice to succeed, an iron force of will and undying doggedness in your pursuit.

That escalated quickly!

breath exercises
cold showers
HITT runs mixed with regular shirtless runs
All these to build up more BAT (brown fat tissue)
interesting, will see about mixing some of this into my rowing schedule

Making a system of governing based on AA, is kinda of interesting, but needs to be all or nothing, and yet without force. Still not sure how you can convince someone to not be greedy.

A bit cathartic, a little punchy, well thought out, easy read.

About the Big Bank speeches:
“Bad Optics” indeed!

About Putting coal minors out of work:
“taken out of context” - True

About the basket of deplorables:
“at some level they are” - :facepalm:

About the Comey Letter re:emails vs Russians + Trump
“cost the election” - F*&%K that guy!


This was the first book I have read from Secretary Clinton, I will probably read some more in the future.

Surprised at how much I had forgotten.

Interesting set of magic systems, characters are well developed. Will continue to read this series.

2nd time through, it holds up. Some aspects of the magic systems seemed less defined than I remembered.

I hated this book, but that is because I take an active role in managing my money, not just ship it off for someone else to worry about.

It does give somewhat good advice if you don't want to learn anything.

The “answer” is to hire someone else to think about your money.

Oh and diversify against a range of asset classes, stick with index funds, rebalance your holdings at regular intervals.

Solid advice, but could have been given in a couple pages.

Is a bit of a modern twist to Buddhism. Discusses desire, fear, relationships, priorities and death. Points to entitlement as the root cause of most modern pains. Was interesting, but doubt it would have caught my eye if not for the “naughty” title.

Most of this was a refresher from the Cosmos's series. Happened to get a copy of from an appearance of NGT near the house.

Appreciate things for the roles they have performed, but let go of things that don't bring you joy.
Let go in a order that makes best sense.
Then try to get organized.
Stack things vertically.

Practical advice, let's see if I can act.

I could not identify with Fogg. I found him Non-emotional, stoic, uninterested, flat and obsessed with a card game. Passepartout was a much more interesting character.

Will need to read some happy fluff after this. Was a little bit of uplifting news about the slooooow gradual amount of change towards the end, but at the same time this was 2 Presidents ago old, and yet still the same cycles keep showing up. Time to go hide on a desert island.

It was an interesting interpretation of the available information. Nothing really came as a surprise after reading “The Baroque Cycle”. Was not aware, paying attention to Newton's age when he published most of his famous papers.

[2024]
I think I have read this book about 4 or 5 times now, don't know that I will read it again in the future.

Still feels about the same regarding Ender's demise, and the characters seem flatter than I remember. Could be that I am just too familiar with them and the arcs they will travel.

The concept of large aiua still troubles me.

[2017]
I remember reading this book when it came out, and Ender's death felt significant to me. It hit me hard, and it took me until the Bean saga to forgive Card, and accept the author's choice. This time around, it felt “okay” .... a little unnecessary, but still okay. The whole concept of large aiua vs smaller aiua, kinda felt like hinting towards eugenics, but that could be me being sensitive to all the outlandish prose written by the Author in non-sci-fi (IRL) postings.

I forgot how short of a story this was, in my head I tend to combine SftD, Xenocide, and CotM as one complete story. Will re-read those this year as well.

You were in the matrix the entire time. :)

Loved Yahtzee's review of Mogworld the game at the end.

Read this for a bookclub, it was difficult to be motivated to read, and was a slog to get through. My rough estimate of what the author was trying to get across is “All forms of knowledge and research are fractal in nature, and most have duel ends of a spectrum from which they can be observed/guided. The more practical (scientifically provable/observable) side of that spectrum is probably better in the long run to come to a more complete understanding of any subject.”. At times it reminded me of “My Ishmael”, but no where near as easy to digest.

“The revolution had been pixelated!” I enjoyed hearing about the heated struggle between Sega's David (SOA, SOJ) and Nintendo's Goliath(NOA & NOJ). The internal fights between the *oA & *oJ were fun to follow as well.

Briefly covers the 80's Video game collapse, then kinda touches on the 8bit era, but mostly focused on the 16bit hay days, and finally leads into the start of cdrom games more “modern” times when more players started to take over.

Cute little gumshoe story, with an interesting Mystical-Roman-era setting. Reminds me of a “Xanth” novel with less puns.

I like the parts where he talks about all the corruption he was witnessing, and where he points out the obvious flaws in systems that are being used to subjugate the entire world, but does not erase the fact that he was a willing participant for most of his life. Also way too much whine-bragging, and the last 10% of the book was just straight up headlines from 2004-2015.

This is what's good in life.

Really getting annoyed with the ‘Wisdom' and the ‘Princess', and the battles were kinda glossed over. Yay they re-discover ‘traveling', why didn't the new Bard tell Rand about this before though?

Interesting story, however felt like just a bunch of new releases and not very deep articles thrown together.

This was a fun jaunt finally start to dive into the Aiel part of the series.