The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

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I think it's appropriate to do a potpourri, a suite of different types of media here. I probably bought or consumed most of this through an Amazon service one way shape or form. Ursula Le Guin is the best known sci-fi novel and her Earthsea fantasy series was part of the inspiration for Harry Potter. But then music I just today was real listening to my beautiful dark twisted fantasy by Kanye West.

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one. We’ve waited seven years to do this episode, and are so, so excited to finally dive into every nook and cranny of this legendary company. And of course because we’re Acquired and this is Amazon, we couldn’t contain it all to just one episode… even a 4+ hour one! So today we focus on Amazon.com the retail business, and we’ll have another full episode on AWS coming soon. And because all great series are trilogies, to fully understand Amazon we highly recommend starting first with our previous episode on Walmart, which truly is the giant’s shoulder that Jeff Bezos stood upon. Let’s go!!

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