This article starts with the title
‘Ready Player One’ is a terrible book and it will be a terrible movie
and goes from there.
The criticism is familiar for anyone who’s read reviews of the book: allegedly it focuses too much on nostalgia at the expense of story and character.…
Mac Laidlaw now famously quipped that any story could be improved by changing the second line to “And then the murders began.”
I thought it would be fun to test that theory with some short stories from my FREE anthology, Minds and Machines:
…Moving the empty containers was far more work than carrying the full ones would be.
Lots of excitement in the sci-fi world lately. The Ready Player One film is rapidly approaching. The initial images released look very Spielberg. And from everything I’ve heard, the film will be full of easter eggs and clever adaptations to some of the puzzles to make them more suitable for a visual medium.…
Since I log all my reading on Goodreads, it makes it easy to keep track of what I really liked over the year. Here’s everything I marked as 5🌟 this year. How many of these have you read?
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham – Part of my deep read this year on management.…
This is an excerpt from the excellent book Emotional Agility by Susan David, PhD.
She talks about a research project where married couples were studied in their “natural habitat” to understand communication better. Susan lists out the “bids for emotional attention” the study used.…
