Sifting through the dirt to get to the gold
" 'All sufficiently advanced technology is indiscernible from magic.' At the time, the child has not understood. So the man had explained: 'What that means, quite simply, is that things which are banal for me, can seem magical to you; it all depends on the technological level of the society in which you grow up.'... Continue Reading →
“It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.” SUMMARY - Success is all about connections. Debra Kaye explodes conventional thinking about innovation and provides an approach that anyone or any business can use to expose the crucial links among observations, experiences, facts, and feelings that on the surface do... Continue Reading →
“You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending” Summary - Gifted with a brilliant mind that has made a deep impression on the elders of his Palestinian village, Ahmed Hamid is nevertheless tormented by his inability to save his friends and family. Living under... Continue Reading →
"She is captivated by the silhouette of a lone Sangre caste bull on top of the hill,a valiant statue cut from the dawning light. She can't look away, already she knows:love is a dark and dangerous animal. For love, you must be prepared to die." A child born into the physically and mentally draining work... Continue Reading →
“‘Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.’ We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, misshapen society. They’re the rocks thrown into the still pond.” Religious cult leaders… psychopaths, CEO’s... Continue Reading →
"In Guyana the night is dark, true dark. In Guyana the night piles thick and velvet. Prussian blue from the ground beneath your feet to high above your head. It is all around you, not confined just to the sky, but laying too along the ground, at the side of the road, in the air... Continue Reading →
WARNING - This book contains sexually explicit material, moderate drug use with a modern spin, and violence towards any living being with two legs, arms are not required. If this book were an animal it would be a chicken headed to your local grocer: a pound of fluff, 69 square inches of exposed plucked skin,... Continue Reading →
"My father advised me that life itself was a crap game: it was one of the two lessons I learned as a child. The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake. As lessons go those two seem to hold up, but not to apply." Play It As It Lays by... Continue Reading →
Most of the people who knew my mother either slept with her or wished they had, including me, my aunt Medina and a man who boarded with us; though he was neither old nor someone’s father, he went by the name of “Pops.” I know that’s ambiguous, but it’s better left ambiguous for now. As... Continue Reading →
"Regrettably, the immune system protecting this global nervous system is weak and under persistent attack. The consequences of its failure cannot be overstated. As a result, it is time to start designing, engineering and building much more robust systems of self-protection - safeguards that can grow and adapt as rapidly as new technological threats are... Continue Reading →
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