How Things Work genre books were popular when I was growing up. Now that’s turned into infantilizing adult explainer journalism.
I think we need a How Things Get Hacked and Pwned genre now. For both kids and adults.
Anyone have good examples?
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Many of my most popular blog posts is how social things get hacked
Gervais Principle: how corps get hacked
Locust Economy: how sharing economy gets hacked
Premium Mediocre: how neoliberal false consciousness gets hacked
Internet of Beefs: how grievance discourses get hacked
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Entrepreneurs are the new labor (on Forbes): how startup ambitions get hacked
Future nausea: how futurist yearnings get hacked
Economics of pricelessness: how sacredness gets hacked
Return of the barbarian: how civilizations get hacked
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"Thing Explainer" by Randall Munroe is very good.
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words is a 2015 illustrated non-fiction book created by Randall Munroe, in which the author attempts to explain various complex subjects using only the 1,000 most common English words.




