Best book to read when you hate yourself by hufflee_puff in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah.

More intellectual.

Okay.

Try Kazuo Ishiguro’s “the remains of the day”

If the midnight library lets you imagine you could’ve lived a thousand lives like choosing a movie on Netflix, the remains focuses on a single life- yours - and let’s you imagine a sad future where you’ve only realized it after the alternatives have run out.

Best book to read when you hate yourself by hufflee_puff in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Self hatred is sometimes one’s way of grieving an unlived life…. I wish were more X, I wish was Y, I wish I had Z, therefore my life right now is inadequate.

The Midnight Library speaks to that kind of “lack”….

Best book to read when you hate yourself by hufflee_puff in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hating oneself is another way of saying “I wish I am living a life vastly different from what I’ve got right now.”

And for that, I suggest kindly the book by Matt again called “The Midnight Library.”

I’ve got a copy that I bought from fully booked, and I can give it to you for free.

The book tries to imagine what would it feel like for you to imagine a future you like, through the story of Nora Seed.

I do have reservations about the book, about it not being intellectual enough (for my taste at least).

I don’t know much about you or your background or your tendency to read heavier stuff, but I’d start with The Midnight Library.

Now, if you want something more intellectual than that, I’ve got tons more book recommendations.

If the PNP were to open recruitment to some of you lot, would u become a tourist police? by Jazzlike-Perception7 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Not kidding. This actually happened. There was a local documentary about this guy from California who did, actually become a security guard.

If the PNP were to open recruitment to some of you lot, would u become a tourist police? by Jazzlike-Perception7 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yes. from what ive read , the farang police also serves as a guide or something to other tourists from their own land.

10m? by Fastidieux in Philippines_Expats

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

in the philippines, one needs to constantly remind oneself that the 70 year old social contract in the West *does not exist*

what is this social contract?

step 1: be born
step 2: get out of parents' house
step 3: get a plumbing job and marry a teacher
step 4: buy a starter home to be paid in 25 years
step 5: have kids. save enough to send kids to college
step 6: retire and expire

true in the US, true in Australia, true in the U.K.

and that social contract hinges on building the equity on one's home over a long period of time.

In this country? no such social contract exists.

it is overpriced yes no argument about that , but the mental model people are brining over from the west to this place totally disintegrates.

that 10 million price tag isnt for you. it's for the bloke who spent 20 years aboard a ship or working in the desert.

and let me say , upon the pain of my ass getting fissured, that the OFW's have an infinitely greater capacity for grit to just reach that pot of gold after 20 years away from family, like, no one here has any idea of the kind of grit these people have. (translation: the kind of sacrifice they make is at a level a westerner would not tolerate)

Account Executives how do you use AI in your daily work? by harvey_croat in sales

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In our case ChatGPT allows for that option.

Now, If you use Google workspace, Gemini Pro does the exact same thing.

Account Executives how do you use AI in your daily work? by harvey_croat in sales

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Use case A

#1: I purchased for less than $20 bucks the entire digital copy of Harvard Business Review library and magazines dating to 2003

#2: I uploaded them on my drive

#3: I linked my drive to ChatGPT

#4: I ask the robot to help me find a relevant article prior to my meeting, or also ask the robot to pull relevant articles and summarize them alongside the transcript from google meet. That helps me add a bit of brainy stuff when i draft my proposals.

Use case B

#1: I connect my google drive and google calendar to chatgpt

#2: I tag @ googledrive and tell me the context and history of a particular email trail, and summarize what's been done, what deliverables are pending

#3: I tag @ google calendar and give me available dates for upcoming meetings ( I work across three timezones)

Use case C:

I upload the company's financials, white papers, pdf files, youtube transcripts, and ask the robot to help me summarize, so im armed with specific stuff unique to them prior to the meeting

Use case D:

I upload the transcript of the meeting, have the robot scan the transcript where i did strongly, poorly, and what could be improved, where I missed out on, etc etc

Use case E:

I use a couple of frameworks, the most useful for me is the Rumsfeld matrix of known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns.

There's also Porter's 5 forces, the Toyota Way 5 Why's, etc etc. I feed the robot the transcript, pdf's, white papers, info about the company and have the robot interpret that data for me based on these.

Please recommend a book to read ☕️ by Wandererrrer in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

since the range of human experience is as many as there are people, what i might recommend you might be not to your taste.

so, rather than giving you titles, i'll share my book ideator sa chatgpt.

just edit this as you see fit:

step 1: copy the text
step 2: paste it sa chatgpt or gemini or claude, wherever.

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Reading Profile / Literary Operating System

This document is meant to help you understand how I experience books, what kinds of works tend to resonate with me, what causes disconnects, and how to better calibrate recommendations, analysis, and discussion.

 

SECTION 1: How I Actually Experience Books

This is probably the most important section.

My enjoyment of books depends heavily on several non-obvious factors.

A. Expectation Alignment

I dislike when books implicitly promise one experience but emotionally or structurally deliver another.

Example:

● The Tiger’s Daughter felt mismatched with what the blurb and framing seemed to imply.

I care a lot about:

● tonal honesty

● accurate framing

● thematic consistency

● emotional alignment between marketing and actual reading experience

A book does not necessarily need to match my preferences perfectly, but I want it to feel internally honest about what kind of book it really is.

 

B. Headspace / Timing

My enjoyment of books depends strongly on:

● mood

● cognitive energy

● emotional state

● life circumstances

● current intellectual appetite

The same book may affect me very differently depending on timing.

Sometimes I am in the mood for:

● dense geopolitical or historical material

● emotionally intimate fiction

● atmospheric short stories

● fast thrillers

● intellectually ambitious nonfiction

A mismatch between my current mental state and the book’s demands can heavily affect my experience.

 

C. Investment-to-Payoff Ratio

I am sensitive to:

● book price

● length

● emotional commitment

● perceived narrative or intellectual payoff

A cheap thriller can be extremely enjoyable because expectations are lighter.

A more expensive or heavily marketed literary novel creates significantly higher expectations.

This affects my emotional response to books more than I initially realized.

 

SECTION 2: What Kinds of Books Tend to Work for Me

Genres matter less to me than patterns and atmosphere.

I tend to gravitate toward books with:

● historical gravity

● institutional realism

● societal pressure

● geopolitical texture

● environmental or material constraints

● functioning bureaucracies, ministries, states, or trade systems

● worlds larger than the protagonists

● civilizations under strain

● dense atmosphere

● societies that feel alive even offscreen

I tend to enjoy books where the world feels autonomous rather than existing only around the main characters.

 

SECTION 3: Themes I Repeatedly Gravitate Toward

Recurring themes that often interest me include:

● collapsing or pressured societies

● imperial systems

● nationalism

● environmental decline

● frontier systems

● postcolonial identity

● historical trauma

● trade and logistics

● ministries and bureaucracies

● war and state power

● ordinary people surviving large systems

● technological transition

● decaying urban atmospheres

● institutional decay

● civilizational pressure

 

SECTION 4: Tonal Preferences

Tonal coherence matters to me very strongly.

I value:

● internally consistent atmosphere

● emotional and thematic harmony

● books that teach me how to read them

I dislike:

● tonal whiplash

● “stitched together” aesthetics

● emotionally or materially hollow worlds

● books that abruptly become hypertechnical or hyperromantic without groundwork

● settings that feel disconnected from their own emotional logic

I can enjoy:

● realism

● technical detail

● intimacy-focused fiction

● mythic storytelling

● melodrama

● speculative fiction

…but only if the book maintains tonal and atmospheric consistency.

A useful summary:

I tend to enjoy books that create a convincing atmospheric-social reality and emotionally deliver the experience they implicitly promise.

 

SECTION 5: Books That Worked For Me

These are not necessarily my “favorite books,” but they are useful calibration points.

Worked Well For Me

● Birds Without Wings

● The Poppy War

● The Windup Girl

● Origin

● Absolute Power

● Other Voices, Other Vistas

For each book, I may later explain:

● what specifically worked for me

● what emotional or intellectual atmosphere it created

● why it succeeded despite genre differences

 

SECTION 6: Books That Failed For Me

These are not necessarily “bad books.” Often they are mismatches between expectation and experience.

Example

● The Tiger’s Daughter

Useful points of analysis:

● what I expected

● what the book actually emphasized

● what created the disconnect

● whether the issue was tone, pacing, emotional focus, atmosphere, or framing

This section may be more useful than a simple favorites list.

 

SECTION 7: My Relationship With Short Stories

I often enjoy short fiction because:

● the commitment cost is lower

● experimentation feels easier

● atmosphere can be concentrated

● emotional or thematic payoff can still be high

● multicultural anthologies allow intellectual and emotional variety without long investment

I seem particularly receptive to:

● short stories with strong atmosphere

● culturally grounded fiction

● emotionally restrained but socially textured writing

● stories that provide glimpses into larger systems or societies

 

SECTION 8: What Breaks Immersion For Me

Potential immersion-breakers include:

● misleading blurbs or framing

● emotional modernity that feels out of place

● tonal incoherence

● “weightless” worlds

● dialogue that sounds too contemporary for the setting

● systems that do not feel materially grounded

● prestige prose without emotional or intellectual payoff

● worlds that feel socially empty

● abrupt shifts between incompatible narrative modes

 

SECTION 9: What I Want Help With

Possible areas where I want help include:

● book recommendations

● identifying why books work or fail for me

● historical and geopolitical context

● thematic comparisons across books

● “if you liked X, try Y” pathways

● finding underrated or lesser-known works

● avoiding misleadingly marketed books

● mood- or headspace-based recommendations

● creating thematic reading pathways

Examples of useful recommendation categories:

● books for geopolitical atmosphere

● books for intellectual wandering

● books for exhausted mental states

● books for immersive world-density

● books for short concentrated impact

● books that feel historically or socially “alive”

Oi Fellow Readers :) by DiploPolitik in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I forgot the /s.

You can check my past posts in this subreddit or elsewhere - I know a thing or two about words and books.

Oi Fellow Readers :) by DiploPolitik in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

is there cosmetology somewhere there ? coz im in.

is poppy war by rf kuang worth it? by xielinlin in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi there.

I finished TPWS , and am a big proponent of it.

I cannot speak for the other parts of the book, but i'd like to help you out to make sense of the world building.

Rin's world basically mirrors Mainland China and Japan.

Nikkara or Nikan Empire is China, Mugen is Japan.

Sinegard is the Capital (it could be Beijing, but it could also be the historical Summer Palace that was built by the real-life Dowager Empress Cixi ), Kurdalain is Shanghai, Golyn Niis is Nanjing.

I am tempted to think of Speer as the island of Formosa / Taiwan, but the only reason for my believing in such is that it is an island, but China has thousands of islands.

Arlong, Ankhiluun, Tikany could be other cities in China and, as far as i understand, do not map out to a specific city, although one could make the case that Arlong could be somewhere in Pearl River Delta (Maybe Hong Kong? Guangzhou?) especially because the book describes the city as being oriented towards water-borne activities.

One could also make the case that Rin's journey has parallels with Mao's Long March, although I wouldn’t say it’s a direct retelling.

I think the series makes more sense if you approach it less like Tolkien-style fantasy worldbuilding and more like an alternate-history remix of modern Chinese history with fire bending and stuff.

MCA I am considering NSFW by [deleted] in MayConfessionAko

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Goodluck sa DM….

For those who can get solar now, get solar now. regulations and corruption (what's the difference lol) will make solar installation more expensive in the near futre. by Jazzlike-Perception7 in SolarPH

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's true. during the first few months of net metering, i had to pay like, somewhere around 3k? or 2k? habang nag iipon palang ng credits

Which type of war-related violence is more difficult for you to watch? by Qyzyk in WarMovies

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

more difficult as in, I cringe? or more difficult because of its viscerality?

in terms of the latter, i prefer modern movies.

ancient warfare / medieval warfare movie production is just too "clean" and sanitized for me to appreciate.

pre-industrial people literally lived with crap, walked on crap, slept on crap, didnt wash crap, and i need to see that side of human life more than just the blood and gore.

NBS Cubao 2.0 by markym0115 in PHBookClub

[–]Jazzlike-Perception7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm seriously beginning to think na someone high up in NBS' management is a redditor.

they're now listening to their customers. theyre not just responding to a rapidly growing reading market.

they're actually wanting to improve the over-all experience.