Book Reviews
Review: Interior Chinatown
Some 18 months ago, I noticed and wrote about the surge of Asian-American cinema in Hollywood. Crazy Rich Asians was the breakout movie, but Everything Everywhere All at Once made the movie subgenre mainstream, dominating the 95th Academy Awards…
Review: Shift Happens
Shift Happens is a labor of love. The author, Marcin Wichary, quit his job to start the process of writing this book[1], taking 5–6 years of research, photography, design, and writing to publish. It's a 2-…
Raising Readers in the Digital Age
I still remember my grade school years. Immigrating to North America and enrolled in English-as-Second-Language (ESL) classes in Canada, I felt accomplished to just keep up with reading assignments, not realizing that they were greatly simplified for…
Review: Minesweeper
Before the advent of smartphones, or widespread internet connectivity, the primary role of a PC was for personal and professional productivity. In the Windows 3.1/95 era, my memories of the main "apps"[1] installed on our…
Review: Disrupting the Game
Reggie Fils-Aimé is a retired executive, most known for his long stint as the COO of Nintendo of America (NOA). His ascension, in conjunction with his distinctly American style of marketing and leadership, was in direct contrast to Nintendo&…
Typing the Classics
So one of the things you do, when you build mechanical keyboards is test for typing performance. For ergonomic keyboards in particular, custom key layouts push for a steeper learning curve, and it takes some practice reps to get used…
