Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model … Read more
I Choose Elena and My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osbourne Crowley. Can highly recommend these to any man who is wanting to better understand issues of sexual assault against women, in terms of how normalised it is, the … Read more
Late last year, at the peak of the non-fungible token (NFT) craze, I purchased about a dozen highest-rated NFT books on Amazon: I did this because I wanted to publish a balanced critique of NFTs; I figured the most honest … Read more
annas-blog.org, 2022-09-25 In the original release of the Pirate Library Mirror, we made a mirror of Z-Library, a large illegal book collection. As a reminder, this is what we wrote in that original blog post: Z-Library is a popular (and … Read more
One thing the PRH/SS merger trial revealed is that publishing has a lot of problems. This is very true! At the same time, many of the problems seem to have mutated into unbelievable chimeras as they made their way around … Read more
This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit our collection to discover “The Economist reads” guides, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. Financial crime is as old as money. Hucksters were dreaming up Ponzi schemes centuries before Charles … Read more
It’s a curious fact that many of the books that had the most transformative impact on my music writing weren’t really about music. Sometimes songs showed up in passing or by implication, but in other instances they didn’t get mentioned … Read more
April 29, 2022, 1:15pm A couple of years ago, I was back home in Brooklyn between college semesters and reading Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy for my experimental fiction class (yes, yes, eye roll away). I had just been lamenting … Read more
1. I have been doing a great deal of publicity these past weeks for my new book, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is. I have been compelled to train my speaking voice, to craft short-and-sweet sound-bites, and … Read more
Ask HN: Books you should read when you transform from SWE into SWE-Management 37 points by DDerTyp 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments Hello HackerNews! I started my SWE career in 2016. I’m in a … Read more