The Memory Cache

The Memory Cache is the personal blog site of Wayne Parker, a Seattle-based writer and musician. It features short reviews of books, movies and TV shows, and posts on other topics of current interest.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Book Review: Sociopath: A Memoir (2024). Patric Gagne, PhD.

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Years ago, I read and reviewed The Sociopath Next Door (2005) by Martha Stout, an eye-opening survey of sociopathy by a clinical psychologi...
Monday, September 29, 2025

TV Review: The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal. On Amazon Prime (2025).

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New readers of mine on The Memory Cache, and now on Substack, may not be aware that as a lifelong amateur rock musician and music fan myself...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Book Review: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024). Jonathan Haidt.

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In the course of my recent reading on the topics of the attention economy, and the effects of our society’s overload of attention-disrupting...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Book Review: The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025). Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.

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I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately on the topic of AI (Artificial Intelligence). AI is naturally interesting to me as a former IT...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Personal Note: My new song "Unknown Land" is now available!

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For those readers who also follow or are interested in my musical adventures, I'm very happy to be able to share the good news that I re...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Book Review: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism. Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025).

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Several years ago, I read and reviewed an excellent book from 2016 about Silicon Valley and particularly Facebook called Chaos Monkeys: Insi...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Personal Note: The Memory Cache -- Now on Substack!

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Hello, and greetings to all my friends, family and interested readers! As you may know, since early 2022 I’ve been posting to this persona...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Book Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (2022). Chris Miller.

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I was intrigued this morning to read an article about a growing problem in the latest iterations of new generative AI products. This probl...
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Wayne Parker
I'm Wayne Parker, a Seattle-based writer, musician, and former IT professional (now retired). My main purpose in creating this blog is to write and share short reviews of good books I've read, and good movies and TV I've seen, for your use and entertainment, as well as for my own reference. In the future, I hope to add occasional posts on other topics of interest and opinion as well. Please drop by frequently, and see what's new!
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