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All Marketers Tell Stories

All Marketers Tell Stories by Seth Godin helped me understand why I feel that marketing is a dirty job. It says, that the marketing process is about making someone feel a certain way, rather than them feeling it on their own. On one hand, this seems like psychological trickery, on the other, it seems obvious […]

The Prince

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Wikisource) is part of a series of books that I need to read before I can read Collective Choice and Social Welfare. The book started with a promising letter that made me think that the rest is going to be about good governance from a common person’s perspective. Just as […]

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🔖 John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (archive) Make an index page that has all the alphabets listed, with sub-divisions for each alphabet+vowel combination. When a new item is added add the page number it was added on in the corresponding row. Since its not just alphabetical there are fewer pages you need to check […]

Bird by Bird

Reading Bird by Bird is like having a friend console me about my fears and pains of writing. By showing us the very real and messy process of writing, Ann Lamott tells us that writing is never a linear journey from inspiration to finished work. She talks about all the potholes, detours and breakdowns on […]

The Pocket Emma Goldman

The Pocket Emma Goldman is a collection of Goldman’s writing taken from the Anarchist Library. You can read it in full — online for free — and I’d highly recommend it. Each sentence in this book is full of truth and power. Goldman sees the world with utter clarity. When I am thinking about the […]

In Surveillance Capitalism, you don’t listen to Spotify, Spotify listens to you. 👩🏽‍💻👀

Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

SMACSS by Jonathan Snook is referenced in numerous articles about on CSS and so I finally decided to read it. I can see now how the ideas in this book would have served as a seed for conventions like ITCSS and BEM. Structured and organized CSS is easier to build on and maintain. Naming conventions […]

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🔖 Understanding implications of Hong Kong’s tech ecosystem changes for India (archive) by Rohan Seth & Manoj Kewalramani The new National Security Law was added to Annex III of the Basic Law, the de facto constitution of Honk Kong. It grants law enforcement agencies the power to censor speech, and track citizens online for a […]

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❤️ Noe Display – Schick Toikka (archive)