Patrick Madden

This is a FANTASTIC read! Anyone with a remote interest in how computers work should pick it up. I've recommended it to a few non-techie friends and they all have loved it. It's a easy read but gives one so much insight into how modern technology came to be.

Oh man, this game is good! I bought the Conquest version at midnight the day of release and have put in about 10 hours so far. It would be more hours if the difficulty wasn't so brutal though. It probably takes me an average of 3-4 tries before I can beat a mission, luckily I still haven't completed the prior entry, Awakening, so I usually switch to that if Conquest is beating me up too much....

So unsurprisingly no company listed earned an A for work/life balance, the highest grade being a B. It's interesting because it's not like we're rating our current company poorly in W/L balance because our previous company had great W/L balance.. It's like tech work culture in general exceeds an almost "Platonic" or intuitive notion of how much work an individual should do. If I started working...

Fair warning, I was playing this casually this morning before I was going to get some work done and I looked up and it was already 1PM. Steamworld Heist is the perfect blend of compelling strategy with just enough randomness to be endlessly entertaining. I think I am nearing the end of the story, at about 15 hours of playtime, but it was a $20 well spent.