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SLAY

Read SLAY by Brittney Morris

By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the “downfall of the Black man.”
But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for “anti-white discrimination.”
Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?

I may or may not have started this book at 10pm « just to read a little before I go to sleep » and finished it in the same sitting a few hours later. It was worth it.

Build your dream network

Read Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World by J. Kelly Hoey

If you think of networking as circulating at boring cocktail parties and handing out business cards, think again.
In the social media age, you need amodern roadmapfor building (and activating) powerful connections to achieve both your loftiest long-term and simplest short-term goals.Networking expert Kelly Hoey’s advice gives you the tools and confidence you need to identify your networks and connect with them in order to achieve everything from landing a new job or client to funding a new business venture.
This is a whole new approach to an old topic, vital in a world where everyone is posting, liking and friending fast and furious but failing to leverage their connections thoughtfully. This fresh process for upping your social game does not require circulating in stale rooms or forcing awkward conversations. Instead, this guide shows how small changes in your daily routine, simple generosity, and goal-focused efforts are all it takes to set you apart and lead to big opportunities. »

I’m actually really surprised – this is one of the first times in my life I’ve read a personal productivity book that actually taught me something and was useful. I will recommend that people read this book and take something away from it.