by Aseem Gupta | Jun 29, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
On June 17, 2004, Cory Doctorow walked into Microsoft’s Redmond offices to argue that one of the technology industry’s major investments was fundamentally misguided. Microsoft and other companies were spending heavily on digital rights management, or DRM: systems...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 24, 2023 | Narrative, Media & Storytelling
Marvel fatigue did not happen because audiences suddenly stopped liking superheroes. That explanation is too easy. If people were simply tired of capes, masks, powers, and comic-book worlds, then Spider-Man: No Way Home, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Deadpool...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 19, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
On February 3, 1863, Cassius Marcellus Clay addressed the Law Department of the University of Albany at one of the most consequential moments of the American Civil War. The final Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect only a month earlier, the constitutional...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 9, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Stuart Wilde’s Silent Power begins like a book about confidence and self-possession. Its early advice is easy to recognize: stop craving other people’s approval, talk less, listen more, control emotional reactions, avoid desperate striving, simplify your life, and...
