Welcome to Litsy!

this is a book about sales.

Amazon has Prime Day going on this week and Audible has a Prime Day sale on audiobooks. I wanted to write a haiku to Amazon.

Amazon
I‘m not impressed with your Prime Day deals this week
I didn‘t see anything that I wanted to buy

I looked at your Audible Prime Day books too
I‘m not impressed with your selection on there either
I‘d be more impressed if my books on my Audible wishlist were on sale

#haiku #haikuhive #haikuaday

We do not care that we laughed so hard at the podcast we listened to on our walk, that the neighbors must think we‘re crazy. #wdncw

I came up with a good idea for using the Wish List feature on Amazon. I‘ve decided to make 2 TBR lists. 1 list has books I want to read on Kindle Unlimited and the other list has books that I have to buy because they‘re not on Kindle Unlimited. During the Stuff Your Kindle Day events, if the books are free then I‘ll buy them but if they‘re not free or if I can read them on Kindle Unlimited then I‘ll add them to one of my lists.

It took me 11 months, but I finally finished this! Really great book about cybersecurity: accessible to non-specialists while including lots of detail. Shapiro writes in a highly informative yet slightly sardonic voice that I enjoyed.

Can't say that I completely understood everything Lanier said, but I did get the main message: social media is ruining the world and we are its slaves. Not Litsy.

A good book with great information and a terrible reminder that absolutely nothing has changed, for the better, since this book was published.

I'm not sure if this short book was compelling on its own or just along with my other reading/experiences, but it definitely struck a chord for me. A Silicon Valley insider, Lanier makes a distinction between social media that uses what he terms BUMMER algorithms to target and manipulate users and other, less insidious types of online interaction. I don't like his Solitary/Pack terminology, but aside from that, it's a very convincing read.

"Project Shield was established to protect dissidents against repressive governments. Brian Krebs, however, needed protection from three teenagers."

"What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?"

As one whose passion for blogging diminished with the push to focus on SEO and who's feeling odd about using IG to promote voiceover work, this quote resonates.