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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #war • 4 years ago
BANGER OF THE WEEK: Sebastian Junger's War
After a somewhat anemic week of military philosophy and science, I was about ready to call it quits. However, I was visited by an excellent tome that knocked me out of my socks.…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #rome • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: De Re Militari
Written by a man who never went to war, this is a treatise on the nature of war and the logistics thereof. I'll be honest and say that the author does an excellent job of…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #taoism • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Tao Te Ching
To be quite honest, I had higher hopes for the core text of Taoism. Although it speaks of "The Way" in a poetic and frankly very beautiful prose and lyric, it wasn't nearly as…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #war • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: The Book of Five Rings
A somewhat short treatise on the way of the warrior is always welcome, particularly when coming from a guy who's essentially Alexander in one-on-one combat. Musashi slew his…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #war • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: The Art of War in the Network Age
It is exceedingly difficult to write a great big book of war. No book I've read on the subject comes even close to approximating the type of mentality that is necessary for…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #war • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Reveries on the Art of War
Maurice de Saxe is one of those people who would probably be killed very quickly, were they to appear in today's time. The intro to the book explains his biography, which reads…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #ireland • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Guerilla Days in Ireland
As I'm interested in all aspects of warfare, this week will see me reading some of the least-known books of the genre as everybody and their hamster's cousin has read the basics…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #entrepreneurship • 4 years ago
BANGER OF THE WEEK: Running Lean
In many ways a more profound tome than Lean Startup, this one examines the role that ego and leadership play in the process of iterating and adapting to a more successful…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #entrepreneurship • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Zero to one
One of my greatest inspirations and, dare I say, idols, is the author of this book and founder of PayPal. It continues to amaze me how there can exist people who give up on life…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #entrepreneurship • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Business Model Generation
The difference between a business model and a product is very important in my mind right now, as I'm growing more capable in designing products, but I'm unable to understand the…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #entrepreneurship • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Getting Real
No, this book is not an autobiographical novel about a self-starting entrepreneur in the favelas of Rio, as much as I'd like to read something like that. Even though I was…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #entrepreneurship • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Lean Analytics
Knowing that you're doing something wrong is very easy - admitting that you're doing so is somewhat harder, taking ownership is much harder and actually fixing it is impossibly…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #entrepreneurship • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Lean Startup
Point and laugh if you must, but I haven't yet gotten around to this book despite the myriad recommendations that I have received. As a stand-alone read, it garners mention but…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #entrepreneurship • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development
I've been putting this off way too long. The various books written on the subject of entrepreneurship that everybody's recommended to me and I've always pretended to have read.…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #maritime • 4 years ago
BANGER OF THE WEEK: Port Management and Operations
There's pretty much only one book you have to read on the subject of ports and maritime shipping. It's a massive book that will take you several days to get through even on a…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #maritime • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Maritime Logistics
All matters of shipping on the sea (not so much on land) are examined in this massive tome of all things maritime. If you wanted to know how ships get balanced for their cargo…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #maritime • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Contemporary Maritime Piracy
Yes, anybody who knows me and even most of those who do not could have seen this from a mile away - pirates. Although it sounds like a super sexy combat-laden escapade of…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #shipping • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: The Box
Whenever somebody begins to spit poison regarding the evils of capitalism and international trade - there is one thing that I can always point to as simultaneously the greatest…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #shipping • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: Deep Sea & Foreign Going
Written by the author of "99% of everything", this book does a better job of going into the details of the shipping industry and the frightfully appalling conditions that…
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aleksaburmazepam (55)in #shipping • 4 years ago
Aleksa's Book Review: The Travels of a T-Shirt
An error on my end caused me to go into this book, but I'm glad I did. I was hoping for it to relate to shipping, but it only tangentially refers to that field. It primarily…
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