Sebastian Gebski
@nokillswit.ch
Geek, engineer, blogger, codefella, serial reader. Engineering leadership for a living. I speak here for myself only.
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 5 of 5 stars to Quo vAIdis by Andrzej Dragan www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Quo vAIdis
5/5: Andrzej Dragan tym razem napisał książkę nie o fizyce, ale o swojej najnowszej "zajawce", czyli AI w ogóle i Generative AI w szczególności. Jak mu poszło? - dalej jest to typowe pióro Dragana, k...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 5 of 5 stars to Quo vAIdis by Andrzej Dragan www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
[Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of All That We See or Seem (Julia Z, #1)
4/5: This is a completely different Ken Liu than the one we knew. But is it a problem? ... Let me start with what ATWSoS is NOT: - it's not a beginning of an epic saga, with picturesque scenes and ev...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
[Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Miejsce i imię by Maciej Siembieda www.goodreads.com/book/show/38...
Miejsce i imię (Jakub Kania, #2)
Jakub Kania, były prokurator IPN, otrzymuje od Instytut…
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October 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Miejsce i imię by Maciej Siembieda www.goodreads.com/book/show/38...
ICYMI, my latest post on one of the most common mistakes managers & leaders make. Of course published on #nokillswitch
[No Kill Switch 802] All the monkeys on your shoulders no-kill-switch.ghost.io/all-the-monk... #nokillswitch
All the monkeys on your shoulders
If I had to bet on which graphical meme appears most frequently in my LinkedIn timeline, I'd say it's the one about "servant leadership". I'm sure you recall it easily (even if it comes in many "flavo...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
ICYMI, my latest post on one of the most common mistakes managers & leaders make. Of course published on #nokillswitch
[Book Review] 2 of 5 stars to Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. by Ryan Holiday www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Wisdom Takes Work
2/5: Even after I've read the 3rd part in the series and evaluated it 2/5, I knew I'll go for the final one. The world's most famous neo-stoic - Ryan Holiday - doesn't write good books, but they are u...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
[Book Review] 2 of 5 stars to Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. by Ryan Holiday www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
[No Kill Switch 802] All the monkeys on your shoulders no-kill-switch.ghost.io/all-the-monk... #nokillswitch
All the monkeys on your shoulders
If I had to bet on which graphical meme appears most frequently in my LinkedIn timeline, I'd say it's the one about "servant leadership". I'm sure you recall it easily (even if it comes in many "flavo...
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October 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
[No Kill Switch 802] All the monkeys on your shoulders no-kill-switch.ghost.io/all-the-monk... #nokillswitch
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Głodna Puszcza by Marcin Mortka www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Głodna Puszcza (Drużyna do zadań specjalnych, #2)
3/5: Chyba się starzeję ;D, bo nawet znając konwencję powieści i godząc się na nią świadomie, jakoś nie mogłem sobie wmówić, że dobrze się przy niej bawię ... 1. To książka lekka, łatwa i przyjemna, ...
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October 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Głodna Puszcza by Marcin Mortka www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to Didaskalia. Osiem rozmów o przyszłości Polski by Patrycjusz Wyżga www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Didaskalia. Osiem rozmów o przyszłości Polski
4/5: A co tam, dam czwórkę - aczkolwiek trochę na wyrost. Dlaczego? 1. Książka rzecz jasna ma konwencję wywiadów - nie będzie tu wielkiego zaskoczenia dla osób znających "Didaskalia" z Internetu. 2. ...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🇵🇱 [Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to Didaskalia. Osiem rozmów o przyszłości Polski by Patrycjusz Wyżga www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
🇵🇱 Czas dla odmiany ... coś poczytać? 😀
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🇵🇱 Czas dla odmiany ... coś poczytać? 😀
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Dirtbag Billionaire
3/5: On one hand, not every founding story has to be interesting and resemble a thriller movie. On the other hand, if it's not - why bother writing a book about it? That's what I was thinking, while I...
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October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by Dwarkesh Patel www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of The Scaling Era
3/5: A set of interviews (or rather - pieces of sliced interviews) with some people one could consider key personas of Gen AI revolution, perfomed by Dwarkesh Patel. What should you know about it? 1....
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October 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by Dwarkesh Patel www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Yet another crowdfunding campaign for a board game by Awaken Realms: "B.E.L.O.W.: The Asylum". gamefound.com/en/projects/...
TBH, it looks like the beginning of new series. And one can definitely sense some "Stranger Things" vibe here.
TBH, it looks like the beginning of new series. And one can definitely sense some "Stranger Things" vibe here.
B.E.L.O.W.: The Asylum by Awaken Realms - Gamefound
Action-horror board game where elite agents battle threats in a haunted Asylum.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Yet another crowdfunding campaign for a board game by Awaken Realms: "B.E.L.O.W.: The Asylum". gamefound.com/en/projects/...
TBH, it looks like the beginning of new series. And one can definitely sense some "Stranger Things" vibe here.
TBH, it looks like the beginning of new series. And one can definitely sense some "Stranger Things" vibe here.
[Book Review] 2 of 5 stars to The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of The Bright Sword
2/5: Poorly digestible mixture of: 1 - "magical realism" in a style of "Magicians" (real world mixes with supernatural elements in a very oniric way, where borderlines are very unclear and it's hard t...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
[Book Review] 2 of 5 stars to The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter by Michael J. Sullivan www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter (The Riyria Chronicles, #4)
3/5: I find "The Disappearance" slight devoid of Ryiria's charm. MJS tried to packed it up with everything necessary (adventure, humor, twist in the story, moral dilemmas, mystic secrets and political...
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October 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter by Michael J. Sullivan www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I've read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of The Great Gatsby
It's surprisingly pleasant to read, keeping in mind how old it is. One can clearly see that FSF was a very talented writer who crafted words very skillfully - the story is very smooth, feels natural, ...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I've read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
[Book Review] 5 of 5 stars to Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising Dominance by Ari Paparo www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Yield
5/5: This is a great book, but only for AdTech insiders who do already know a lot how this specific industry works. In theory, everything is explained step-by-step BUT explanations are very rushed, th...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
[Book Review] 5 of 5 stars to Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising Dominance by Ari Paparo www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
🇵🇱 Za dwa dni (czyli w piątek 🗓️) "dogrywka" ostatniej sesji CTO Morning Coffee ☕ LIVE - oczywiście o 8:30 rano 🕣.
🔥 Coffee 81 - Jak wygląda (/powinien wyglądać) nowoczesny proces wytwórczy w 2025 roku? (część 2-ga)
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🔥 Coffee 81 - Jak wygląda (/powinien wyglądać) nowoczesny proces wytwórczy w 2025 roku? (część 2-ga)
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#81 - Nowoczesny proces developerski (część 2)
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October 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
🇵🇱 Za dwa dni (czyli w piątek 🗓️) "dogrywka" ostatniej sesji CTO Morning Coffee ☕ LIVE - oczywiście o 8:30 rano 🕣.
🔥 Coffee 81 - Jak wygląda (/powinien wyglądać) nowoczesny proces wytwórczy w 2025 roku? (część 2-ga)
YouTube 🎞️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02J...
🔥 Coffee 81 - Jak wygląda (/powinien wyglądać) nowoczesny proces wytwórczy w 2025 roku? (część 2-ga)
YouTube 🎞️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02J...
[Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to Focus: The ASML way by Marc Hijink www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Focus
4/5: The only book on ASML I've managed to find - isn't it a recommendation already? This European company has achieved an unprecedented success - yet, very few people know how they did it. They are n...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
[Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to Focus: The ASML way by Marc Hijink www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... by Steven Pinker www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...
3/5: It's much more scientific than e.g., "Better angels", but the topic is ... rather dull and unattractive. I mean - I'd love to read a blog post or an article about that, but a whole book? The conc...
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September 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... by Steven Pinker www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
As a geeky teenager in the 90s, I'd kill to get such a game. It looks totally mind-blowing. #stem #diy #builders www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoDG...
Mars First Logistics 1.0 Release Trailer
YouTube video by Ian MacLarty
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September 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
As a geeky teenager in the 90s, I'd kill to get such a game. It looks totally mind-blowing. #stem #diy #builders www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoDG...
[Book Review] 2 of 5 stars to The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
2/5: Brown is trying hard, but it just doesn't work out ;/ Unfortunately, it seems he has now permanently moved from stories about deciphering ancient codes and mysteries into s-f-ish mixtures of con...
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September 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
[Book Review] 2 of 5 stars to The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Breakneck
3/5: There's very little new in this book, maybe except a nicely formulating general thesis: "China is a country of engineers, US is a country of lawyers" - which gets repeated like mantra. If you exp...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
[Book Review] 3 of 5 stars to Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
[No Kill Switch 801] Why LLMs don't make (some of) us fly? - part 2 no-kill-switch.ghost.io/why-llms-don... #nokillswitch
Why LLMs don't make (some of) us fly? - part 2
That's the second (& final) post in the mini-series. The prior one can be found here. Where are we right now? I've explained why the "depth" of Gen AI usage matters. And I've already covered two of th...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
[No Kill Switch 801] Why LLMs don't make (some of) us fly? - part 2 no-kill-switch.ghost.io/why-llms-don... #nokillswitch
[Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to Hannibal’s War: A Military History of the Second Punic War by John Lazenby www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Sebastian Gebski's review of Hannibal’s War
4/5: I enjoyed it a lot, but it's not without flaws: + perfectly scoped (2nd punic wars was what I was looking for, but it provided the important historical context of both 1st and 3rd war as well) + ...
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September 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
[Book Review] 4 of 5 stars to Hannibal’s War: A Military History of the Second Punic War by John Lazenby www.goodreads.com/review/show/...