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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...

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&...

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...

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...

Review: The Fund

I read Ray Dalio's Principles back in 2018. Without much knowledge beforehand of Bridgewater Associates or its emblematic founder, I found the book to be a reasonable autobiography paired with some scattershot advice....

Review: Keep Calm and Code On

Keep Calm and Code On is a book that discusses what it takes to develop software professionally, not so much the technical aspects but lessons learned through experience. The subtitle is "A tactical guide...