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Verrett states that the most important figure in his shaman career is a woman named "Mamal," whom Verrett identifies as his great-grandmother and spirit guide, and who he says "was a powerful medicine woman from Ghana, where she worked in service to her tribe," [39] and that she "fled Africa in the early 1800s when her tribe was invaded by the Dutch."
Publishers Weekly reviewed Hacker Culture as "an intelligent and approachable book on one of the most widely discussed and least understood subcultures in recent decades." [1]
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age is a book released in 2001, and written by Pekka Himanen, with prologue written by Linus Torvalds and the epilogue written by Manuel Castells. [1] Pekka Himanen is a philosopher. [2] Manuel Castells is an internationally well-known sociologist. Linus Torvalds is the creator of the Linux ...
Verrett is also the host of the podcast “Ancient Wisdom Today" and author of Spirit Hacking: Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, and Light Up the World ...
Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells. In this manifesto, the authors wrote about a hacker ethic centering on passion, hard work, creativity and joy in creating software.
Viewed from an anthropological perspective, hacking is a cultural tradition affirming group solidarity, but some hacks can also be viewed as individualistic creative or artistic expression. For example, the "Massachusetts Toolpike" hack [36] was a clear instance of installation art [37] [38] or environmental art. [39]
It’s a bad look for the crypto industry to let North Korean hackers rob them blind.
PC Magazine stated that Levy "does capture the essential composite of the hacker personality but fails to accept that the true hacker, driven by machine lust, is equally content to hack in the corporate corridors. He is also naively optimistic about the collective spirit of computing, which he believes will ultimately prevail". [3]