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3.79 AVERAGE
Just didn’t hold my attention, and I have enough Slack in my working hours.
you asked why I was “having such a hard fucking time with this”
before and it’s like
you ever lose an email?
like really lose it, not the thing where you don’t wanna go digging
through your inbox for an email you know you have so you ask
someone to forward it to you because you “lost” it
I mean really and truly lose one
you read it, you *know* you read it, and it’s important enough that
you try to pull it up to read it again and it just is not in your inbox
or your trash or your spam folder or anything
just, fwoosh, gone. no evidence it was ever there
and we just accept that that happens sometimes, emails
disappearing, the way we accept that we occasionally lose socks in
the wash
but they’re not comparable at all
there’s proof when you lose a sock, you have its mate you can point
to and say “hey look I used to have two of these,” it’s apparent,
you’re not making it up
and besides losing a sock is explicable, there are dozens of ways it
might’ve happened. maybe it fell out of your laundry basket or you
left it in the washer or the dryer or maybe there’s a left-sock fetishist
running amok and they opened your machine when you weren’t
looking and grabbed it during the rinse cycle
objects go missing, it’s frustrating but it’s not exactly perplexing
but the machinations of an email inbox don’t make sense to most
people and besides we expect digital space to archive everything
even after we delete it
we don’t think anything’s ever really “gone,” the undo command and
little “on this day last year” nostalgia-prompts have ruined us for that
but so much goes missing online and there’s not even a lonely sock
to point to, you know?
I mean the first like fifteen or twenty years of the internet, that’s
gone, not much of a record of all those HTML 1 websites or BBS
message boards or the first primordial blogs
and we keep forgetting to preserve things because it’s just there
every day and why would anyone want to remember last week’s
internet -- and we don’t, but we want to remember the fifteen-years
ago
internet and that was last week’s internet, once
not much we can do to retrieve it once it’s really, fully gone
no proof you ever read that email you thought you read
maybe it wasn’t real
maybe you had a work-related stress dream or you made it up or
you’re misremembering
and it’s like
you don’t want to be that missing email.
interesting book. I don't think if I had not heard about it from a booktuber I would have ever read a book like this. Like, EVER. I think, I liked at as I read all of it in less than 5 hours. It was an easy read for sure. I liked how the characters were not annoying, they were just some coworkers that you sort of know but not really. They never really fully explained what actually happened with Lydia though or I probably missed it. I don't know. It was nice enough. I didn't really love it or anything. Some quotes about your sense of self were interesting. The whole company thing seemed pretty realistic. It was nice, light read really. Cool stuff.
funny
fast-paced
A quick and wacky read
Not sure about the whole Pradeep and Slackbot-as-Gerald business, consent-wise
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is storytelling through digital media. Its been a while since I read a book in full chat format and I guess this is what makes it feel more authentic and engaging- as if you were part of this little office cult. I did’nt really know what was happening exactly during the first half but then since the plot twist glitch, the second half of the book got me feeling like I knew these characters pretty well now… until i don’t! and that last page echoes. Pretty entertaining read, people on the corporate world can relate. Passing this on to my bookbuddy Kei.💞
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I love a book with a unique concept!!