I've been using Kagi for the past few years, but I try to use a brand-agnostic language talking about web search; e.g. "I'm gonna search [the web] for it"; "Use your favorite search engine to look it up".
Jon Gjengset—among other things, the author of Rust for Rustaceans—works for this company and talks about them occasionally answering questions during his recurring Q&As; e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw88-0ofBs0&t=10616s
> One thing I am curious about is whether there is a different kind of science fiction out there.
One recommendation: Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora: We went there. It didn't work. We came back. We did good and bad things to each other along the way. It was beautiful and painful.
> At a 2017 conference, MBS illustrated his vision for Neom by comparing two phones. [...] a Nokia 215 phone next to a traditional city layout and an iPhone next to The Line’s vertical layout.
I think there is a lot to be learned just from this single vignette.
Ditto about the quality of intro. One way to show that "meat" without sharing some arbitrary number of chapters could have been to also include some of the back matter of the book (index, bibliography, etc.) in the sample. For example, I'm reading this:
> If coding really is like sorcery, what does this mean for how we think about computers?
and wondering whether Abelson/Sussman sort of wizardry makes an appearance or not.
