Great book. It's clear that Mr. Bjarnason is a Generative AI skeptic (and I am too) but he gives a lot of practical advice which aims to tamp down on the hype a little.
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Cthos rated The Intelligence Illusion: 5 stars
The Intelligence Illusion by Baldur Bjarnason
What are the major business risks to avoid with generative AI? How do you avoid having it blow up in …
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Cthos reviewed Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
Solid Sanderson Novel, some Weird Quirks
4 stars
Content warning Lots of Cosmere Spoilers
Like Tress, this book contains a number of Cosmere in-references and features Hoid as the narrator. Pretty quickly you find that Hoid has found himself in yet another ridiculous situation where he's incapacitated in some way (like Tress), but he's unable to act in this one (unlike Tress). Taking Hoid's place in the role of "mentor" is Design, the cryptic that Hoid picked up in the Stormlight Archives. Now she's a buxom woman now (or rather, the illusion of a buxom woman) with "definitely very human mannerisms". I enjoyed her persona here, it provided the comic relief as a stand-in for Hoid. They really are made for each other.
The ideas behind how the Nightmares work and how the world functions really didn't make sense to me at first, but when the reveal comes at the end of the novel it all satisfyingly clicked into place. Like, in the initial chapters, I was wondering if it was tidally locked, but turns out, no.
Other thoughts:
The moral lesson / Painter's growth was good. He did that thing again where he has a character plainly lay out the backstory which is useful, but I'm not a big fan of that. The third viewpoint character (who didn't really get any viewpoint scenes) was nice, I enjoyed her. The reference to Threndony was A+.
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Cthos rated Frugal Wizard S Handbook for Surviving Medieval England: 5 stars
Cthos finished reading Frugal Wizard S Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
Cthos reviewed The personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
Solid Business Book
5 stars
Solid book, I did already understand a lot of the concepts but there were several times while reading the various sections that I thought to myself "Yeah, I see this every day". Likewise, the book does a good job of distilling the concepts into digestable chunks so it can be used for easy reference.
Cthos commented on The personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
So far so good, basically the first chapter is "Why you shouldn't get a traditional MBA" which boils down to "It's expensive and there's no evidence it makes you any better at conducting business."