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Acid for the Children: Flea Memoir Acid for the children was released in 2019. This is the title of Michael Peter Balzary’s (Flea) memoir, which for those who doesn’t know, is the legendary bass player of one of the biggest bands in the Rock history, Red Hot Chili Peppers. The book was on my list of books to read in 2020, but I couldn’t wait. I skipped the line, and what a journey!...
Undone cover Amazon Prime shows are surprising me a lot. Today I bring a review of the last show I binge-watched: Undone. The synopsis is as follows: A woman discovers she has a new relationship with time after surviving a car accident that almost killed her The show was created by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Raphael is the creator of one of my favorite shows, BoJack Horseman and Kate also worked on the series as a writer....
Permanent Record is Snowden’s autobiography title. Beyond the details of his life since childhood and going through adolescence, the book show us how Snowden exposes to the world the dystopian scheme elaborated by the US government. My name is Edward Joseph Snowden. I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public - Edward Snowden The book starts with the sentence above and with it we have the tone of what the autobiography will be....
Weapons of Math Destruction was in my list of books to read for quite a while. The book came out in 2016 and since then I’ve heard quotes in podcasts, videos and articles in several occasions. Then I finally managed to prioritize it’s good that I did. Each chapter is a slap in the the face and converges directly with everything I have studied and read in recent years. This book is more than necessary....
Following another great Guilherme Felitti’s tip in his excellent podcast, Tecnocracia, this time I bring the review of the best-titled book ever: Zucked 😂 For those who don’t get it, “Zucked” is a joke with Mark Zuckerberg’s name, who is called Zuck, with the term “Fucked”, which actually defines well the current moment on the Internet and much of it is thanks to Zuck. Before we talk about the book itself, it’s worth talking about the author, Roger McNamee....
For anyone who can see a frightening global pattern in politics and democracy in recent years, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future. The authors, both political scientists and professors at Harvard, are accurate in presenting the obvious: There are structural flaws in our democracy. The most critical point - and the one that impacted me the most - was the fact that undemocratic governments seized power through democracy....
Reading Homo Deus was a great experience. Both this book and Sapiens should be in everyone’s must-read list. Yuval Harari is an incredible writer. Most of the time, I was intrigued, never bored. There were some very insightful paragraphs and chapters (at least for me). As a technologist, studying the effects of technology on society, I found Yuval’s Homo Deus was very helpful. When I started reading this book, right after Sapiens, I was really curious: what Yuval would say about the future as there’s a lot of confusion, fiction and belief these days (E....
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