Such a great story of Beowulf but for kids
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52% complete! reconbot has read 26 of 50 books.
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reconbot finished reading The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
The action-packed third installment in Peter Brown's internationally bestselling The Wild Robot series takes Roz on an under-the-ocean journey to …
reconbot wants to read Scattered by Gabor Maté
Scattered by Gabor Maté, Gabor Maté
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe …
reconbot started reading The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
The action-packed third installment in Peter Brown's internationally bestselling The Wild Robot series takes Roz on an under-the-ocean journey to …
reconbot wants to read Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo
Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo
Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location …
reconbot wants to read Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
reconbot finished reading Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith
reconbot wants to read Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what …
reconbot wants to read Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to …
reconbot finished reading Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be …
A wonderful little story. I don’t know what I can say that won’t give anything away, but I loved this book. It’s a nice cozy read.
reconbot started reading Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa
The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of …
reconbot reviewed The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and …
Cautionary tale of the tech industry told as an adventure story
4 stars
Still a wild tale, I’m no longer in awe of it and it’s obvious everyone involved got screwed and feels good about it (though that might be the authors bias). The love of the work “I’d take a pay cut to be involved in a project like this again” when already underpaid. It’s wild.
"West" one of the project leaders goes into “business development” answering the question “what happens to engineers over 40” writes Kidder. Fuck that. He doesn’t want to be exploited any longer, that’s what happens when you get over 40. Seems he’s still in engineering anyway consulting with other teams.
Overall this is a Wild take on a time in engineering that is not dissimilar to some companies today. I’ve worked at Data General clones, it sucks and isn’t worth it. Don’t get romanced. This is a cautionary tale told as an adventure story. I’m glad to …
Still a wild tale, I’m no longer in awe of it and it’s obvious everyone involved got screwed and feels good about it (though that might be the authors bias). The love of the work “I’d take a pay cut to be involved in a project like this again” when already underpaid. It’s wild.
"West" one of the project leaders goes into “business development” answering the question “what happens to engineers over 40” writes Kidder. Fuck that. He doesn’t want to be exploited any longer, that’s what happens when you get over 40. Seems he’s still in engineering anyway consulting with other teams.
Overall this is a Wild take on a time in engineering that is not dissimilar to some companies today. I’ve worked at Data General clones, it sucks and isn’t worth it. Don’t get romanced. This is a cautionary tale told as an adventure story. I’m glad to revisit it after 20 odd years and I'm glad to see how my perspective has shifted.
reconbot finished reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles …
reconbot wants to read The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to …
If it's as good as the first one I'm in for a fun ride.