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I'm excited to announce that Shadowcasting, book three in the Mia Graves Saga, is now out!
I could run through a brief description of the book and I give the back-of-book synopsis again (like I did when pre-orders went up), but you can go back and read that post if you want to. The short version is "how do you talk a twenty-something out of using a magical nuke, especially when you just work retail."
In all honesty, this is my favorite book in the series so far. In some ways it's very different than the two earlier books in a couple of ways, but still feels like the same series. There's not much else I can say without major spoilers, so you'll just have to trust me on that one.
Like my earlier releases, for the first three months the eBook will be available only on Kindle (and Kindle Unlimited), but you can also get the paperback a couple of ways. First off, there's always Amazon, but you can always direct order a copy if you want to avoid Bezos. Finally, you can get it through any bookseller with the ISBN 9781088207031.
So yeah, the book is here, and I'm excited that folks will get to read it finally.
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middle management at tech companies are like the apendix no one knows what they are for
Simply put, hierarchy is the only way we know how to deal with workforce scalability. The CEO of a multinational firm can’t manage every directly, so they have reports. There are too many for each report to manage directly, so they have reports under them, etc.
I kinda want to go back an take a class in applied economics or something, because I don’t understand how most businesses stay in business.
I’ve wondered about that one for years…
You said it right there: it’s the same everywhere, i.e. the competition isn’t doing any better. So why would they go out of business?