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Oh this is good.

Why is Artemis so far from Apollo 11 landing site anyway? Assume that’s the whole draw? Maybe had something to do with making all trips to Artemis far away from Apollo to avoid ever disturbing it? Wait, where do transport/cargo ships land anyway?

Why keep in sync with Kenya time? Is that home base for this civilization? Eager to learn more, pretty fun so far! :)

Sounds like they keep 24-hour ‘days’...maybe for tourists’ benefit? Natural uninterrupted human rhythm is more like 25 hours, right? Might’ve considered adopting that and just dealing with the crazy time zone overlap implications? I guess too much communication needed with Earth though and easier to align with workdays here.

In a lunar civilization, would’ve thought people might have to walk around with weights all day to increase gravity and avoid bone and muscle loss. Eager to see Weir’s explanation of how they coped. Is there the same vision degeneration problem on moon as in space?

This is gripping, if light on the deep technical details of exploits—it’s more about the current state of the black/grey/white hat/market hacking, the history of Iran’s nuclear program so far. Really interesting. Great footnotes too, excellently handled by Kindle :)

Ok, that chapter (5) on decision-making and believability was pretty good. Might be good to discuss in managers’ meeting?

Having a little trouble buying his story here about meaningful work and relationships. Sounds like he liked making money by being smarter than everyone else. I see he’s being liberal with “meaningful work” and I don’t see much in the way of relationships. He loved to party, yes, but was there more?

Wait, Moaning Myrtle is (Myrtle) Elizabeth Warren?

Chapter 11 is awesome. Everyone building a service or working on analytics must read this.

Really want to discuss a bunch of these topics. I'm posting KNH but no one can see it (or finds my questions/comments of any interest ;) ), but also think some of these will benefit from in-person discussion.

Chet's right: this is good! We should definitely journal-club some of these chapters.

This is good. Recommend the audiobook read by Trevor himself.

There's actually a lot of research here. Way more reference to other pop social science books than I'd expect/want though (Gladwell etc)

awful lot of direction in the screenplay. seems to overwhelm the actual dialogue while reading. it's trying to be a novel (with over-the-top doodles everywhere too ;) ). i think i'm enjoying it though

4%-11% several unrealistic things so far, taking me out of book immersion. amateurish?:
rain "gusting"
windshield wipers making windshield wetter and blurrier
burning /lips/ on pizza? roof of mouth, no?
how Shadow knew the calendar on warden's desk was far side? (presumably facing warden)
"A waitress wiped a cloth across the table and took their empty plates." (Cloth before clearing plates?)

This is important to read. It's autism FAQs from the point of view of a person with autism that he explains (indirectly) probably can't ever take place through conversation or interview.

Definitely good advice here, I'm taking a lot of notes and need to figure out a good plan to apply it all (some immediately, down eventually).

Some good stuff here. We need to resurrect customer driven contract testing.

Just finished passage about her mother witnessing a stoning of a girl, the father's awful role in the murder. Discussion with her new husband over this event in which he apologizes for having no explanation for it leaves her feeling safe. Bit hard to explain in brief but it's powerful.

Liking!

hope to move past anecdotes soon.

This is great to read on Kindle iOS app with page flip...keep wanting to go back and check the image for each chapter and it's super-easy to flip back and forth! (and it's fiction :) )

I think he intentionally front-loaded a ton of the funky words to put you on your heels from the get-go. Not sure all of this has enhanced the reading pleasure or not. Probably not.

Finally caved a bit and starting looking up words in glossary, though still haven't read the note to reader beyond the if-you-want-to-figure-it-out-yourself-stop-reading-this bit. Feel like the non-English dialect has actually decreased a lot since the first 30 pages though, so it's less relevant now.

Wow.

WTF, Lomax?

"And Edith had relaxed her pursuit and obsessive concern for Grace, so that the child was beginning occasionally to smile and even to speak to him with some ease. Thus he found it possible to live, and even to be happy, now and then."

Edith is awful.