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- Add static/resume-2026.html (print-ready CV) - Add nav link to résumé in baseof.html - Add draft post on suffering and God - Add 2025–2026 book entries to book list Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# 2026
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**To a Different Drum:an autobiography - Pauline Hamilton (1984)**
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You can find it at the Internet Archive. I read it for a bookclub.
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Easy reading. Goes through her life, from around 1939 to 1980, from a compelling opening story
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of attempting to commit suicide but, when thwarted 'by chance', eventually giving
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her life to God to serve as a missionary in China. Convicting dedication to prayer over
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a tough life of personal hardship. Inspiring, but I've been reading some amazing
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stories since joining this group (we do biographies of Christians) so this sits middle of
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the pack.
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**Apple in China - Patrick McGee (2025)**
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Long. I did not make it to the end of this one, but list it anyways as it was very detailed
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and reveals a lot about Apple and China and how both have been able to expand into the
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powerhouses they are today. I never realized Tim Cook came along relatively early in the story.
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# 2025
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**The Shortest History of AI - Toby Walsh (2025)**
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Another insightful and easy-to-read book providing a solid background on how AI has
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evolved and how it works. Not prohitively technical; most people could read and understand it.
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Good.
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**The Trading Game - Gary Stevenson (2024)**
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Great read about an Englishman from a poor upbringing landing a trading role at a massive
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investment bank. Extremely insightful into what goes on in those buildings. He becomes
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massively disillusioned about the whole scene and, I believe, now tours the world (on the
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money he made there) promoting governments to tax the extremely weathly 1% as much as
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possible.
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**Red Notice - Bill Browder (2015)**
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Awesome read about an american financier who invested in businesses in Russia after
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the Soviet Union collapsed. Expanded my history and understanding how that all happened
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and what it meant on the ground. The corruption described is astonishing and is highly
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informative of what we see there today.
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**Funeral Rights - Robert Larkins**

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title: Why does God allow suffering?
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date: 2025-04-30
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tagline: "But if God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow suffering?"
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# The Problem
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If God is good, why is there suffering in the world? It is one of the most difficult questions
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for Christianity to face. I think I had an epithany last night which I expect if I don't write
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down, one day in the future when I am really suffering, I will wish I could remember.
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Everyone suffers in some form. Poor people suffer poverty. Rich people suffer loneliness and distrust.
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Everyone suffers poor health and end-of-life anxiety eventually. Even Jesus suffered enourmously at the
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hands of the Romans, and (temporary) separation from all that is good.
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# The Answer
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Suffering is God's bluntest tool to get your attention.
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# Discussion
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## Suicide?

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