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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture - Stephen H. Segal, N.K. Jemisin, Eric San Juan, Genevieve Valentine, Zaki Hasan</h1> |
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2020-03-10 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/n-k-jemisin/">#n k jemisin</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/eric-san-juan/">#eric san juan</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10418415-geek-wisdom">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our |
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Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know |
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something about life in the 21st century that other folks don’t—something we |
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all can learn from. Geek Wisdom takes as gospel some 200 of the most powerful |
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and oft-cited quotes from movies (“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”), |
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television (“Now we know—and knowing is half the battle”), literature (“All |
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that is gold does not glitter”), games, science, the Internet, and more. Now |
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these beloved pearls of modern-day culture have been painstakingly interpreted |
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by a diverse team of hardcore nerds with their imaginations turned up to 11. |
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Yes, this collection of mini-essays is by, for, and about geeks—but it’s just |
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so surprisingly profound, the rest of us would have to be dorks not to read |
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it. So say we all.</p> |
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<p>Although it is getting common in my reviews, I have to say this again: I have |
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no idea what's the target of this book.</p> |
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<p>Everything starts with a quote: A scientist, a meme, a movie quote, a game |
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character, take your "geek" pick". Then, it is followed by a commentary about |
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the quote. And, finally, some piece of trivia/explanation about the quote |
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itself.</p> |
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<p>The content of the book, then, is the commentary about the quotes.</p> |
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<p>And that's where my confusion comes.</p> |
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<p>Some explanations seem targeted to other geeks: "You see, So-And-So says this, |
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so we geek should be careful about that". Some others seem targeted to |
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non-geeks: "Geeks love So-And-So, because they said that and geeks related to |
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it". So, it's a book to geeks or to non-geeks?</p> |
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<p>No only that, but some explanations are really dense, like the author (one of |
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them) is trying to push a point in a short form and throwing jumping stones |
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really fast, to the point that when you reach the end of the paragraph, you |
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have no idea how it started.</p> |
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<p>And some are borderline insane: "Transformers! Transform and roll out!" is |
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related to Martin Luther King "Change does not roll in on the wheels of |
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inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle." And with that all I can |
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think is "Really? Like, really really?!?"</p> |
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<p>In the end, it is just a book about geeky quotes and a lot of filler.</p> |
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