Book Review: Nice Guys Can Get The Corner Office by Russ Edelman and Timothy...
Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office: Eight Strategies for Winning in Business Without Being a Jerk ISBN-10: 1591842093 ISBN-13: 978-1591842095 PROS: Surprisingly insightful look into nice guys, winning...
View ArticleReview: The $100 Startup
Review: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau ISBN-10: 0307951529 ISBN-13: 978-0307951526 PROS: Gives simple advice on...
View ArticleAODSF 2012: Convention Report And Speculation
Just finished up my latest visit to AODSF, a con in San Francisco I’ve been doing events at for awhile, and wanted to give my latest report. Sadly I didn’t get to to do much as my day and life was...
View ArticleTake A Look at ‘The Flaw’
I know a lot of you would really like to understand how the economic meltdown happened. Well, OK some of you, as we’re not all econogeeks like yours truly. It’s kind of hard to wrap your mind around...
View ArticleReview: Ready For Anything, 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things...
Review: Ready For Anything, 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done by David Allen. ISBN-10: 0143034545 ISBN-13: 978-0143034544 PROS: Advice is presented in intense, “bite-sized” sets of...
View ArticleReview – Can*Con 2013
This past weekend, October 11-13, 2013, saw Can*Con 2013, the 33rd Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature, held in Ottawa, Ontario. This year, Can*Con also hosted the Aurora...
View ArticleLost in Translation – A Mixed Bag
First, A Lupin the Third live action movie has been announced! The movie will be a prequel, showing how Lupin met his crew. Next, it’s weird where you can find an adaptation. Back while getting info...
View ArticleReview: Twilight of the Elites, America After Meritocracy
Review: Twilight of the Elites, America After Meritocracy ISBN-10: 0307720462 ISBN-13: 978-0307720467 PROS: Book transcends petty politics while being straightforward and realistic. Proposes...
View ArticleCalifornia Extreme – Looking Back, Looking Forward
Last year I found out about California Extreme, an event in the Bay Area where people get together to show off, discuss, and of course to play old video games and pinball machines over the course of...
View ArticleLost in Translation 109 – Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
Since the series first aired in 1966, Star Trek has made inroad into not just geek culture but global culture. It is rare to find anyone unfamiliar with the concepts of the series and unable to name...
View ArticleJust Go Buy A Copy Of Make Magazine Already
I would like to very strongly recommend you give a look at Make Magazine (http://makezine.com/). I have a friend who’s into Maker culture. He also is the reason I now lust for a 3D printer, and he got...
View ArticleBook Review: Language Intelligence By Joseph Romm
Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga by Joseph J. Romm ISBN-10: 1477452222 ISBN-13: 978-1477452226 PROS: Explains good communications skills....
View ArticleZero1 Biennial Review
So I attended the Zero1 Biennial main exhibit. If you’re not familiar with it, its an every-two year exhibit run by the Zero1 network a group that promotes arts in Silicon Valley. The theme this year...
View ArticleReview: Indistractable
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) A friend advised me to get the book Indistractable by Nir Eyal, a guide to productivity and...
View ArticleJagged Little Pills: A Review of Red Pill, Blue Pill by David Niewart
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) David Niewart has written on extremism before, but the internet-fueled conspiracy theories...
View ArticleStrange Days: Regretful Artificial Memories
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Strange Days is one of those films more people have heard about than seen. “That cyberpunk film...
View ArticleGodzilla Singular Point: Go Big and Go Confident
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Godzilla Singular Point (GSP) starts with a simple idea: What if we did a Ghostbusters/X-files take...
View ArticleDune 2021: Incomparable By Choice
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Having seen the 2021 Dune movie by Denis Villeneuve, I’m not going to compare it to other takes or...
View ArticleDogs In Space: Dogs With Something To Say
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) A good piece of fiction is alive. It has a personality, a sense of being, and like any living...
View ArticleHeaven’s Design Team: God’s Blessing On This Wonderful Worldbuilding
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. Then he outsourced the animal stuff....
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