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by bwb 1y ago
Ugh, that made me look at literacy rates in the USA at the 6th grade or below.
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by bwb 1y ago
Thanks! I totally missed that, I wish they would announce when it is out rather than when it isn't :)
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by bwb 1y ago
IMO... one of the most important benchmarks for judging the effectiveness of a government is the cost of housing. Cheap and basic housing is so key for economic well-being. I would love to see very basic, small, apartments created by govern
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by bwb 1y ago
how do you actually get it? none of the links work and I am a paying user... just takes me to documentation.
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by bwb 2y ago
I love systems thinking because it explains so much about the world. In the 1960s, my father gave me all of the early systems thinking literature, and I have been on a mission to educate people about systems thinking ever since. I know it h
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My favorite reads on Systems Thinking(shepherd.com)
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My favorite books about Isaac Newton, his life and his magnificent Principia(shepherd.com)
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by bwb 2y ago
Some great recommendations and thoughts from Douglas W. MacDougal: My father showed me a comet through his binoculars after dinner when I was six. I remember seeing that ghostly wisp from another time, suspended in space, hung among the sta
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by bwb 2y ago
Who’s next? You? Me? Person down the street? Maybe…
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by bwb 2y ago
I am excited to see the next 20 years :)
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by bwb 2y ago
José P. Zagal picks five of his favorite books about games. He has studied them for over 25 years and just wrote a fantastic book on the Virtual Boy (Nintendo).
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An expert picks the best books for loving, learning, and caring about games(shepherd.com)
2 points by bwb 2y ago|1 comments
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by bwb 2y ago
If you ask for really specific stuff you can get some good recs, but it can def be hit or miss. That type of deep analysis is hard, as nobody has access to inside the books (unless your are FB and do it illegally, plus have billions of comp
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Russell Blackford on the history of liberalism: five persuasive perspectives(shepherd.com)
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My favorite books about bees from a bee expert(shepherd.com)
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by bwb 2y ago
Short answer: no. Long answer: hell no. Publishing a book is incredibly "easy," and that means it is more work to find the books you want/need to read. It has always been hard, so I am not sure if it is hard in a new way, or
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by bwb 2y ago
I run Shepherd.com, and hopefully, it helps :). Feel free to email me at ben@shepherd.com if you need any help with book ideas. I'm working to add more book DNA breakdowns later this year to help tap into certain themes, tropes, moods,
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by bwb 2y ago
ack, I also have this problem :) I am working on some world-building for something I want to write one day, but I am trying just to write little things to help. I write a lot of nonfiction stuff for work, but I am worried that it might not
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by bwb 2y ago
The only way to get better at something is to do it. Start writing short stories or small novels, and you will get there over time. You don't even have to be a great writer to write a great book as well :). It helps, but readers will f
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by bwb 2y ago
why would you ever want to write a novel with AI, that is human stuff right? :)
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by bwb 2y ago
ah very cool, so readers can vote on books they know and love. Nic work, I dig it :)
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by bwb 2y ago
Nice :), fun little project! I'm working on a little TBR tracking app, along with some logging to replace my spreadsheet. I had fun checking this out. What is the idea with votes?
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by bwb 2y ago
Ya i do love, like, meh, dislike :). I want personal ratings not a weird public scale that everyone uses differently.
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by bwb 2y ago
That is why your kids will eventually fight in World War 3, because you won't invest in a system to establish real peace globally by standing up to dictators who invade other countries. It is not illegitimate in any way, and I think yo
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by bwb 2y ago
Btw, that is a common misconception that is debunked (a common tool politicians use to fear monger and I hope this helps you not fall for it): https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-irs-armed/fact-che... Taxes
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by bwb 2y ago
I would not be surprised if he announces he has sold California to Russia for $1 next week. What a traitor to everything American stands for.
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by bwb 2y ago
I guess he really doesn't want those tapes to go public...
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by bwb 2y ago
They are already drafting an end to sanctions, which is unbelievable.
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by bwb 2y ago
Nuclear weapons are a scary prospect, that def plays into what can be done. Finding that line is not something that is easy.
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by bwb 2y ago
With that logic, any country too small to fight its neighbors should be taken over, their citizens killed, their women defiled. What planet are you from? Would you like to live in a world where the strong can do anything they want? Or do yo

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