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Re:Ten Problems for Silicon Valley in the 2020s by MattGaiser on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:37PM (#25247866)
I just bought the booklet and read the first few chapters. Not sure what the point of it is. In particular it does a very poor job of defining the problems and it almost seems written to use as many unique adjectives, adverbs, and buzzwords as possible.

Not a good use of $10 unless it is intended as a very very high level summary.

Re:Ten Problems for Silicon Valley in the 2020s by DrNuke on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:54AM (#25252540)
Hi, Thanks for your purchase. These are mainly aimed at non-specialistic audiences, aka people willing to get a fair, recent, high-level picture without investing their time to research, collect and organize such materials. The added value is a thematic structure, coming from the ideas circulating in more divulgative magazines or platforms.

Any excerpt in the booklet is taken from the paper or the contribution it belongs, in order to share the researcher’s voice. All referenced papers are available for free in the internet for own consultation, in case audiences want to go deeper: think of specialistic audiences like graduate students, maybe looking for a different perspective or an up-to-date list of recent contributions.

As usual with services like these, more similar to consulting than publishing, the market will dictate how this series goes and the format of the updates to come. The Amazon infrastructure takes care of all the backend needed to make these circulate, and the occasional exposure from highly regarded communities like this will provide with valuable feedback, so thanks again.