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https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780312998035/cruel-deception · 1 Jul 2025
Gregg Olsen’s Cruel Deception is a faithful retelling of a factitious disorder imposed on another (originally Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP)). Equal time is given to the defendant and prosecution with yet more given to the children that were victimi...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780593086612/how-infrastructure-works · 24 Jun 2025
I'm not — by any measure — a deeply studied fan of infrastructure. I value it, I appreciate it and I know that it's at its best when you don't think about it. It does its job, you rely on it so faithfully that it fades into the background. Until it cru...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780593653111/the-sirens-call · 16 Jun 2025
Hayes' The Sirens' Call is a compelling read and part of what makes it so compelling is his framing of attention as a finite resource that has been totally commoditized. Which, well, it has been. It's core to the tech-driven economy we find ourselves in. E...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780393881516/stories-are-weapons · 11 Jun 2025
Topical, well-researched, compelling, concise. Framing recent campaigns, memes, psyops — whatever you'd like to call them as propaganda and weaponry feels both novel and accurate. It's a helpful framing for the moment we've found ourselves in. Everyone, ...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil · 7 Jun 2025
I was tempted to set this aside when I first got into it, but I stuck with it and I don't regret doing so. It provides a high-level overview of the field, its shortcomings and possible, realistic outcomes. It clarifies that AI is an umbrella term for numer...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780593229866/no-more-tears · 3 Jun 2025
Johnson & Johnson is a healthcare empire and a household empire in the United States (and elsewhere, perhaps? I can't speak to that). That they are so deeply entrenched and recognizable is a crediting to their marketing and fierce defense of their brand. T...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781451656091/on-air · 17 May 2025
I've never been a fan of NPR in any meaningful sense — I trust their reporting, find it credible and reliable but have never become attached to its more lauded shows and the hosts attached to them. Steve Oney does a magnificent, engaging and thorough job...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316365789/black-tunnel-white-magic · 6 May 2025
I often look to the true crime genre for engaging narratives, detailed retellings of stories I'm perhaps only vaguely aware of and a simple interest in the genre. I wasn't aware if this case and I'm surprised I wasn't but it was overshadowed by other event...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/1538725428/play-nice · 21 Apr 2025
I loved StarCraft, had a passing interest in WarCraft, spent a lot of time on Diablo II multiplayer with friends and that's where my interest in Blizzard ends. I spent a lot of time playing Diablo II. Remember that item duplication bug? I remember that one...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781538740712/the-wonder-boy · 14 Apr 2025
Tim MacMahon is a talented writer — his NBA coverage speaks to that. He's knowledgable and well-positioned to write this book. He didn't have sufficient access to Dončić himself and the book would be better if he had. He had the access typical of a bea...