wesleymiles's reviews
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I really aligned with the style the author/artist has, so that made it easier for me to connect with it. I enjoyed how he stressed how your subjective experience of a scene should be the object of a piece. This framing helps loosen the worry of scenes 100% realistically. Overall, it’s an inspirational book that helped me stop overthinking and start drawing.

the black, haunting scribbles have a way of describing a gnawing conscious better than only using words can. also the hungry mouth stomach.

i related with some of Katie’s issues: low-self esteem, not listening to or trusting yourself, and it offered a window into elements i’m not as familiar with, like: what it’s like to be a woman in todays world and perfectionism. 

i couldn't put it down. 

i also kept seeing her perfectionism come through the drawings. there’s so many in this 500 pager and it flows so well. but knowing that she’s applying that trait to something she loves doing is comforting. it’s healthy. 

highly recommended journalistic comic. the jungle visuals are magical. the story is tight and focused on the subject of the memoir, Pablo. you couldn’t write a more righteous character. his early interest in organizing resulted in his town coming together to pay for his law degree! he spends the next 25 years fighting the goliath chevron representing 30k Ecuadorians impacted by their massive pollution. the story is still alive and he’ll probably continue the fight the rest of his life. inspiring piece for organizers everywhere.

Overall, this book helped me understand Red Hat and its history. As an employee, I was happy to see familiar names mentioned. However, currently the company feels MUCH less differentiated among other tech giants as the author suggests.

Ethan guides us through a brief history of the labor movement and how it relates to the layoffs we see in headlines. i’m new to the unionizing world so appreciated learning the basics: from how a parent union supports young unionizing efforts to why we should include traditionally non-tech (thus more exploited) workers in the conversation. he’s also provided a full quiver of links to dig deeper. the main takeaway for me was that this is not new. the system we live in requires standing up to the bosses to demand change. 

while some parts were a bit of a slog, it’s 100% worth it to those looking for a perspective why we like the arts. his writing is easy to digest even if the topic is dense. the parts about “modern” 2014 technology are very outdated, but i don’t know how else to tackle something that moves so quickly in a book. i especially appreciated the parts on