March 2019
Review of Not On the Label - What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate
Not On the Label - What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence is a 📚 about how our food chain is working nowadays. I’ve read the second edition published after 2013. The book is quite old, but still relevant today. Each chapter of the book explains how the food chain works for a given food item, and what the issue is. We start with beef which includes horse to keep the price low.
Climbing
I just started reading Vortena: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.3) by Neven Iliev.📚
Tee leaves tree 🌳.
I just started reading Fizzlesprocket: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.2) by Neven Iliev.📚
I just started reading Morningwood: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.1) by Neven Iliev.📚
Finally got the books of the Sandra and Woo webcomic Kickstarter- happy!
If you aren’t getting anything out of a book, put it down, and pick up another book. Always have a book queued next in line for when you finish the current book you’re reading.
Yes to both!
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Another book finished: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.📚 The story starts quite harmless; the moon gets destroyed by an unidentified object. I somehow would have expected a different story behind this setup, compared to what the author produced, he does not answer how and why the moon was destroyed; he follows the consequences of this event, which are rather dire! The author divided the book into three parts; each reads like a different book.Fighting with my Raspberry to get Spotify to stream on it. I got it to work using raspotify. But it is not reliable :-(
I just started reading Not On the Label - What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence.📚
An unkind summary, then, of the past half decade of the consumer internet: Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all parties to increased surveillance.
I constantly think about ideas for such companies and then I remember again what this means for our society.
⤑ The Servant Economy (via Kottke.org).
Review Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible by Jia Jiang
📚 Review of Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible by Jia Jiang, I’ve heard the interview of the author on the episode 49 of the “You are not so smart” podcast and was intrigued about his story. I’m a prime candidate for rejecting myself constantly. Just the idea of asking somebody something is causing me anxiety. And he writes this quite clearly do not stop doing something just because you think other persons would not approve of your idea - ask.⤑ Agile by degrees: How to estimate engineering project timelines.
This makes sense :-)
Faces staring at you.