A Snapshot of My Reading #7 - A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
While I’ve been listening to Hounds Of Love, I’ve also been reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Here’s a passage from an early chapter as the crew of the International Space Station watch a typhoon forming: How wired and wakeful the earth seems suddenly. It’s not one of the regular typhoons that haphazardly assault these parts of the world, they agree. They can’t see it all, but it’s bigger than projections had previously thought, and moving faster. They send their images, the lat...| Adactio: Journal
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
Last week, we welcomed 14 students to the June session of the Orbital 1K, a four-week program designed to coach them through launching a crowdfunding project, MVP, or community that can generate $1,000 in revenue. The program is led by Gary Chou and me, assisted by fantastic advisors from around the Orbital sphere. You can find all the students, instructors, and advisors on Twitter here. I’m teaching the 1K because it sits at the intersection of a lot of things I care about: building supp...| That's What Xu Said
