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The part I enjoyed the most in the book was "The Empuzzlement of Gödel's Theorems" that uses a twist with Knights and Knaves.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53232141-games-for-your-...
There's a certain amount of "movie magic" that goes into any tech demo to make it work well on stage but Tesla's demos never gave me a sense that what I was seeing would actually line up with how their cars will perform in the real world.
You have to be ambitious and aim high in the tech industry, but at some point you have to level out and stop getting high on hype.
Relationships are to be judged by consistent behavior over weeks, months and years. If I have to keep guessing if I'm going to get the stick or the carrot from someone, to me it's a no-brainer that I shouldn't expect kindness from them.
Unless some major creators that use Patreon begin a very public exodus from the site, I'm not sure too many regular users are going to be leaving though. The blackmail risk of having your subscription history leaked won't even register for a lot of users.
If you want to talk about objects in executables and your new programming language, that's what Hacker News is here for! But you don't need to trick people into clicking your technical review.