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O Kit das Start-ups, de Bruno Marinho, é mais para um resumo de outros livros na área. Li faz pouco tempo um deles ( The Lean Startup , recomendo muito), e achei que o resumo foi razoável.  Vale o investimento de tempo, e se você achar interessante, pode ir na fonte. 1 estrela a menos porque o link para o material extra não funciona mais.

 Later, by Stephen King, is (not surprisingly) an horror book. The story is basically about a kid who can see and talk to bad people (who apparently most can't lie, or only with difficulty). It's nice, and relatively short. Surely not one of his books likely to be remembered after years, but a good enough time. Some people called it an overextended novella, and I think they are kind of right.

The Immortality Code, by Douglas E. Richards, is a SF thriller. I've read many books by the author, and as far as I can remember, I liked all of them. This one is mostly about a scientist who posts a breakthrough in quantum computers, and the operative who is sent to protect her. I really liked the beginning of the book. The tech was pretty reasonable and the action was nice. Further on, the tech escalated quickly, and the dialog started being a bit annoying. One the twists (the memory related one) was pretty obvious from the first page. The end scenario was nice, and reminds me of The Expanse for obvious reasons. It also reminded me of Neal Asher, as he heavily uses the extra-dimensional extrusion thing in the Polity series. As usual, there is a large section on the back of the book with comments, on the choices made in the story as well the current state of the technology mentioned, which I really like. A bit weaker this time since the tech was so beyond what is known. Overall, g

 Relacionamento interpessoal e gestão de conflitos   é um curso do LIT/Saint Paul. Sinceramente achei que ia ser meio inútil, no final achei interessante. Alguns temas - comunicação, percepção, feedback, formação e desenvolvimento de equipes, gestão de conflitos. Evidentemente que trabalhando sozinho de casa, boa parte do conteúdo não é útil, mas no contexto de uma empresa acredito que teria ótimo efeito se todos entendessem o conteúdo. Uma das leituras extras foi esse artigo , que fala de uma técnica para evitar conflitos. Não tem dados, mas desconfio que bem implementado faria muita diferença em organizações.

Critical Thinking for Better Judgment and Decision-Making is an interesting course on LinkedIn Premium.  It covers many ways to improve your critical thinking, and what disrupts it. It talks about logical fallacies, how to enhance your planning, using mental models, enhancing your questions and more. Overall, pretty useful for the short length (about an hour).

 Jetbrains Academy teaches programming in a practical manner, using projects. Currently they have tracks for Java, Python, Kotlin and Frontend development. You can use the browser or their IDEs, with a plugin - which of course is nicer and faster. Not to mention that if you are going to use them afterwards, that is practice on mastering them. It seems nice so far. You can skip classes for the projects by taking exercises/tests, and the classes so far were all in text format, which I personally like. This is not free, though. You get a free trial (14 days, +2 months if you complete your first project), then it is US$50 a month or US$250 for the year.  It does seem to be more effective in relative narrow ranges (I didn't take any more complex projects yet), but you can get a year of Pluralsight for that, which includes a lot of courses, and some interactive projects, too. If you'd like to try them, you can use this link  for a 3 month trial. I get gems if you do, which can be use

 I imagine every gamer out there heard about Cyberpunk 2077. There was a discount on Steam, so I got it. I just played for a short while so far, but it seems nice - I like the stealth and hack mechanics (not sure if this is from the source material, but the RAM thing seems a bit silly), and the shooting part seems satisfactory, too. Graphics are good, even in my 3 year old PC with a GTX 1070, although I get mostly 30-something FPS at QHD (1440p). I will probably update this as I play more. Update: I like the Braindance investigation thing. It was a little slow, though.  Which applies to a lot of things in the game so far, it is fun and everything, but 30-60 minutes will pass and almost nothing really happened... Driving is OK, but not good... Update (07/Jun/2021): I have played 75h, and finished the game. I didn't take all the side-missions, but took a whole lot of them.  I do really appreciate that there were many ways to solve each mission - full stealth, hacking, just shooting e

 Starship Titanic, by Terry Jones (from Monty Python) is a sci-fi/comedy book in the Hitchhiker's guide universe (barely). It was made to be a set with the 1997 adventure game (3 CD-ROMs!). Douglas Adams was too busy with the game, so when Terry Jones, who was doing the voice of the parrot, asked what he could to help, Adams suggested the book. It concerns the titular Starship Titanic, which was supposed to be a modern marvel, but as you might have guessed, things go spectacularly wrong. Anyone paying attention will note that the story is very adventure-game friendly (lost items that need to be found, heroes going on about the large structure to find things, etc). It was pretty silly, just like Adam's books, and also pretty funny. Not sure if I will try the adventure, but the book was definitely worth the time (it is pretty short, 255 pages) and price.

 Building your first machine learning solution, by Mohammed Osman, on PluralSight, covers the basics of machine learning. Since I already had that on other courses, I watched this one mostly for completeness of the Machine Learning Literacy path on Pluralsight. Mostly it wasn't helpful, but I did like seeing the demos with Google Collab, which I hadn't used before. In particular, I was impressed by how easy it was to create an API with it.