The Startup Wife

Read The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam

Meet Asha Ray.

Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones.

Cyrus inspires Asha to write a new algorithm. Before she knows it, she’s abandoned her PhD program, they’ve exchanged vows, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia.

The platform creates a sensation, with millions of users seeking personalized rituals every day. Will Cyrus and Asha’s marriage survive the pressures of sudden fame, or will she become overshadowed by the man everyone is calling the new messiah?

A fun novel with a surprisingly relatable protagonist (and a perfect « love to hate him » asshole of a boyfriend) for the enthusiastic yet very tired startupper that I am. This is a win for my The Storygraph account, as I got the recommendation from their algorithm (and it was pushy about it, too!).

Pourquoi et comment le solarpunk doit construire une nouvelle culture

Liked Solarpunk: lenses and foundations with Think That Through (alxd.org)

Voici mes notes de lecture sur l’article d’alxd Solarpunk: lenses and foundations with Think That Through. N’hésitez pas à lire l’original si vous le pouvez : ceci est un résumé avec parti pris et n’inclut pas toutes les informations de l’original ! L’importance des hiéroglyphes solarpunk Les hiéroglyphes sont des signes visuels ou narratifs qui…

Brotherless Night

Read Brotherless night : a novel by V.V. Ganeshananthan

Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors, a Tamil feminist and dissident, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever.

I’ve been on a big of a Sri Lankan binge (…3 novels, but that’s 3 more than usual) recently, and Sashi’s story of becoming a field medic in the middle of the civil war was my favourite of the three. Brotherless Night is an excellent book that got my attention and broke my heart a…