Twisdom from wonderella, October 31, 2013 at 03:04PM

The tenth rule of fight club is don't read the comments.

— Wonderella (@wonderella) October 31, 2013

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October 31, 2013 at 03:04PM

"Experts" pick the sci-fi books you gotta read by year's end

Because Patrick Hester uses wisdom as his dump stat, I was invited back on the Hugo-winning SF Signal podcast to discuss both what sci-fi I'm reading, prose-wise, and what I will pull out all the stops to read by year's end. Fortunately, Jeff Patterson, Fred Kiesche and Paul Weimer are along for the ride to inject some actual informed genre bibliophilia into my relentless name-checking of Scott Lynch, Brian Wood and Cherie Priest.

If you're building a Christmas list for the sci-fi-o-phile in your life, or just like hearing geek-banter normally reserved for side-chats at the D&D game table, you could spend worse hours than to hear the SF Signal Recommendations for 2013's Remaining Sci-Fi Must-Reads. My segments are imminently mutable.

As always, my tally of past SF Signal podcast audio-crimes is available here.

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Twisdom from maureenjohnson, October 28, 2013 at 12:39PM

The thing that makes writing books take so long is that they make you finish them.

— maureenjohnson (@maureenjohnson) October 28, 2013

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October 28, 2013 at 12:39PM

Twisdom from MarcusRomer, October 23, 2013 at 03:18PM

The Creative Process
1. This is awesome
2. This is tricky
3. This is shit
4. I am shit
5. This might be ok
6. This is awesome

— Marcus Romer (@MarcusRomer) October 23, 2013

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October 23, 2013 at 03:18PM

Twisdom from JustinKownacki, October 23, 2013 at 10:03AM

"I wish I had more followers I could market myself to," he sighs, confusing human contact with lead generation.

— Justin Kownacki (@JustinKownacki) October 23, 2013

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October 23, 2013 at 10:03AM

The (nearly) unimaginable future of the American tax code

Let me begin this essay by stating I am in no measure an economist and have no real credentials for advocating the economic viability of what I'm about to propose. I come at this as someone trained in both narrative and sociology, which is to say this is how I expect the political story of American federal taxation to eventually end.

And it will end, at some point in my lifetime, with the demise of the income tax and the rise of the federally guaranteed basic income. Put another way, the federal government will stop taxing your personal income and will instead underwrite it, for everyone.

Twisdom from MykeCole, October 16, 2013 at 03:15PM

Let me put it a different way: Make every month NaNoWriMo.

— Myke Cole (@MykeCole) October 16, 2013

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October 16, 2013 at 03:15PM

Twisdom from timpratt, October 16, 2013 at 11:37AM

Sticks & stones may break my bones but words will worm their way deep into my subconscious where they will intermittently haunt me for years

— Tim Pratt (@timpratt) October 16, 2013

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October 16, 2013 at 11:37AM

Twisdom from damiengwalter, October 05, 2013 at 06:15AM

When I die, the devil is going to show me a pile of all the books I could have written, and a folder of all the tweets I sent instead.

— Damien Walter (@damiengwalter) October 5, 2013

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October 05, 2013 at 06:15AM

The TechTalk episode where I reveal the OG version of Einstein's famous equation

Against all good sense, I'm allowed back on TechTalk radio to reveal how Einstein originally composed his mass-energy equivalence equation in 1905, because it didn't look anything like E=mc².

The rest of the show is dedicated to snarky but cogent discussion of deception and identity on Facebook, which is a much better use of your time. Before I leave, I toss a "Google vs. Sci-Fi" grenade over my shoulder. Give a listen; just fast-forward when you hear my voice.

As always, my complete litany of podcast transgressions is available here.

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