This is such a crazy idea! I love nonfiction- especially narrative nonfic; my most memorable entry to reading something “true” for FUN? Let me introduce you to Tracy Kidder. #TLT #ThreeListThursday #NonFiction
1. Tagged book. Inspired me to read all of Kidder‘s books (I haven‘t 🫤) but Mountains Beyond Mountains is another of his extremely inspirational reads.
2. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - LISTEN 🎧 to this!!!!
3. See comments . . . 👇
pickPart history, part science, part political, part innovation, Chip War walks the reader through the innovative of the “chip”, it‘s fabrication, ramifications, and its uses. How we got to the Asian dominance of chip production was interesting and where we go from here is complex and well explained.
I didn‘t know about this. Personally, I prefer human narrators over listening to a robot read a book. Human narrators have inflection in their voices and robots don‘t.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/9...
I guess that this was before the shrink down feature on computers.
pickThis was a fantastic, gripping read that tells one of the most important stories today and highlights the cliffhanger that the world is at now.
THANK YOU to my #LitsyLove and #SundayBuddyRead family for thinking of me after giving birth back in July! I can‘t believe how lucky I was to find this app and this community of fellow book lovers & pen pals.
pickThis book is an exploration of computer chips from their development and history to the current geopolitical machinations related to their manufacture. There‘s some really interesting info in here, though I did find this very dry. 🦴 🌵 Also, the audio reader kept pronouncing silicon as “silikin,” which frankly drove me crazy.
Interesting recipes, especially the ones on threading, Makes you realize using Go is way better than dealing with Python's way of handling multiple threads.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8dX_2Udab9QKk4CXiI0CeScJNjf-HWh1gTYH8... 1mo