martijnreintjes's reviews
261 reviews

Fun sci-fi read.
Only the book never gets really exciting.
It feels like the characters are just going to the motions and never make any real choices.

What I did like where topics like:
- Sentient AI / Humanoid relations
- Interactions of humanoids from different alien cultures

I'll now try to incorporate this One Thing stuff in my daily routine.
I'm sucking at it for now as there are so many demanding tasks pulling at me.
Maybe my one thing should be making those more manageable so the company and my life doesn't fall too pieces :)

A Closed and Common Orbit is a great exploration on how civilisation will handle sentient AI's and how these beings (are they?) think and search for meaning.
If you are only slightly interested in our AI future, this is a must read.

Scott lives his life very much like I do.
Treat everything as an experiment and always be learning.

In the book he gives some other interesting hacks to streamline your life.
As the book describes the tactics I use to live the life that I love, I think I am going to gift this book a lot in the future as I believe it can help a lot of people.

Love how Dan makes starting a business so easy.
Just re-read the book as I'm pondering on trying out a new business idea :p

I love how Becky explores social topics in a sci-fi setting.
Record of a Spaceborn Few describes the lives of humans who now lived for generations as space nomads in a fleet of space ships launched after Earth stopped being liveable.

Topics that are described are:
- what is home? (Everything can be home)
- human culture as seen from an alien species
- Space nomads versus settlers
- the influence of (new) technology on culture
- technology vs. nature

This is the 3rd book from the Wayfarers series, but is the least well written. There are just too many different characters and storylines that it's hard to keep track of them and this slows the book down considerably.

Not super specific in the actionables...