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Writer, Speaker, Sugarcane Planter. You can find me at maxbrooks.bsky.social and @authormaxbrooks on Threads/Instagram.
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When Core Strategy Disappears, Regression is Inevitable

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By Max Brooks
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In the absence of a core technical strategy, regression is inevitable. I’ve seen firsthand how teams thrive when guided by a shared set of values — principles that encourage us to think beyond immediate deliverables and toward the ceilings of our solutions. That kind of forward-thinking culture builds momentum, allowing every line of code and every design decision to compound over time. But lately, I’ve noticed a shift.
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WHEN WE WERE REAL

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By Daryl Gregory, Max Brooks, Rebecca Yarros
| Kirkus Reviews Verified
A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing.
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DISSOLUTION | Kirkus Reviews

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By Nicholas Binge, Max Brooks, Alex Michaelides
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A nimbly constructed story that starkly explores the dangers of neuroscience run amok. With shades of Philip K. Dick, a dystopian novel that probes the darker corners of the mind. Stanley Webb is in a bad way, as so many of his age: He’s in a memory ward, sinking into dementia, leaving his wife to tend single-handedly to a house that’s too large for her.
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