Popco. Scarlett Thomas | 
Hey Everyone!! I went from being and English major to being kinda obsessed with computers so this Amazon pick got me also. It‘s over 500 pages so it will take me a while.
pickAlice works for a cutting edge toy company as a product designer. She‘s peculiar in a very good way, burdened with family secrets. Code breaking , maths, puzzles, hidden treasure, identity, and skewering of how marketing/branding influence consumer lifestyles and culture. My mentor at the ad agency I worked for: “We don‘t sell products, we sell dreams.” Can be scary. All techniques in the book are actually practiced. Alice breaks free; #Resist!
Did the #funkopopyourself thing but tweaked it as suggested by @kspenmoll and @Riveted_Reader_Melissa . Definitely more accurate than the other backgrounds!
Alice Butler is a toy and #puzzle developer. Here, she is reminiscing about her precocious young self having a conversation with her cryptographer/logician grandparents about the Epimenides paradox. #CleverPeopleConversations #QuotsyNov17 @TK-421
Somebody decided that the couch is an excellent scratching post, so now both kitties have stylish pink plastic toenails. 💅 Also, this book is fascinating! The codes and history and weird marketing facts and even the 2009 pop culture references are fantastic and really have me thinking. 👍
#amazingcover I love Scarlett Thomas. In this book she deftly weaves math, code-breaking, and corporate marketing into a narrative that also involves hidden treasure and a romance. It made me consider again the question: what do we buy when we buy something and how does it tap into what we want to convey about ourselves? The depiction of the Thought Camp training for marketers was chilling. Smart and absorbing. #ReadingWomenMonth @thereadingwomen
Reading Envy Podcast 067: Rain and Readability. We also discuss the Man Booker Prize. bit.ly/2cbGVs3
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