books

Snow Crash - Metaverses and Viral Culture

Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - 700 Words

Snow Crash - A book by Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. In 2021, the book came back into vogue following Facebook’s announcement that they were changing their name to Meta and aiming to develop a metaverse.
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Folding Beijing

Sat, Jun 5, 2021 - 500 Words

A note on Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) A simple, beautiful story about economics and class. I came across it after finishing the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin and noticing that Hao Jingfang had won the Hugo award for it the year after him.
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Journal - Korean Books

Wed, Jun 2, 2021 - 600 Words

Wed 2 Jun 23:18:06 KST 2021 Dear Gopherspace, I still haven’t gotten the hang of journaling. Perhaps my life isn’t eventful enough. I imagine journals to be writings you look back over later in life to trigger memories of places, times, people, feelings, thoughts, etc.
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The Three Body Problem

Thu, Apr 8, 2021 - 1300 Words

I just finished reading The Three Body Problem. It’s a fantastic book, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Below are some rough thoughts on the book. Probably only relevant if you’ve already read it.
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Satin Island

Sun, Oct 25, 2020 - 2500 Words

Tom McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 Writing the Malaise Incomprehensible, except when read as a footnote to Remainder. Then, it becomes an author’s expression of his own struggle with feelings of inadequacy in an (academic-literary) milieu dominated by cults of personality.
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This is How You Lose The Time War

Fri, Sep 25, 2020 - 2100 Words

Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Saga Press, 2019 And Through All the In-Betweens To be sensitive to signs, to consider the world as an object to be deciphered, is doubtless a gift.
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