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Welcome @tamarawinter!
Tamara is the Commissioning Editor for Stripe Press. I like to think of Stripe Press as a distribution channel for the most interesting ideas in the world.
She has kindly agreed to do an AMA.
Reply with your questions :)
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@anaroth
Purchased:
Bobiverse Books 3 & 4 50% off
The Strength of the Few 50% off (Have Will of the Many in the shelf waiting to be read)
Candide by Voltaire bc @benroy dropped an epic book list
Added to wish list:
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Considering adding:
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
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Finally finished chapters 26-50. You can really see the change in Sun Wukong in these chapters - less impulsive, using his mind as well as his strength, and even taking the time to school his fellow pilgrim Eight Rules Wuneng.
Way better than the first 25 chapters, looking forward to the next 25!
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@starl3xx.eth
★★★★ to “The Disappearers” (640pp) by @MarlonJames5, book #11 of 2026
Like the assault it’s built around, I’ll be recovering from this one for a long time... forever, probably.
https://bookshop.org/a/88484/9780593717202
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@hyp
Finished Odyssey reread. Haven’t seen movie yet but those imax 70 mm tix are starting to become available…
Biggest hot takeaway: wow for much of human history until end of bronze age the entrepreneurs were literally warriors, professional killers. Go out, get land and treasure, then have slaves raise cattle and crops.
Let’s not go back there.
Beyond that I’m reminded of the theory of Julian Jaynes on the bicameral mind where the voices of gods were just the “inside voice” of thoughts and consciousness back then. So much of Odyssey can be read as a metaphor for consciousness. I’ll explore this in longer form in a bit… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind
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@starl3xx.eth
★★★★½ to “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence” (480pp) by Sebastian Mallaby, book #8 of 2026
Cemented my admiration for Demis/DeepMind while also serving as a great primer on early-modern AI + LLM development
https://bookshop.org/a/88484/9780593831847
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@dandelion
Where no hope remains, we must invent it.
The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
— Albert Camus
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@hyp
Theory upon rereading The Odyssey, it’s a bit of an allegory of the psyche. Very Joseph Campbell, Jungian.
Dopamine is the siren’s song.
It feeds the ego and inspires short-term thinking and action that is often self-destructive.
Half way through, trying to finish this weekend.
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