Book Reviews
Review: The Metaverse
I picked up The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything when it came out in 2022, though I haven't gotten around to reading it until now. The author, Matthew Ball, was a venture capitalist known for elaborately…
Why It's Hard to Replicate the Kindle Experience
There are rumors that the entire Amazon Kindle lineup will be refreshed this year: more memory for AI, plus removable batteries to comply with EU regulation. Hey—more Kindle hardware is good news. Yet, the reading experience on Kindles has…
Review: The Skill Code
A couple months ago, I went on the CTO Confessions podcast. In one of the segments, we talked about the impending—or already developing—problem of the shrinking talent pipeline. With agentic AI, senior engineers are now expected to manage…
Review: Super Nintendo
I picked up the book Super Nintendo expecting to read about the greatest gaming console of all time. Instead, I got a thoughtful chronicle of the greatest gaming company of all time. So, still a worthwhile read—particularly for video…
Review: New Money
The thesis is right there in the title. New Money: How Payment Became Social Media: Swartz, Lana: 9780300233223: Amazon.com: BooksNew Money: How Payment Became Social Media [Swartz, Lana] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. New Money: How…
Review: On Writing Well
I was thinking of The Elements of Style. I asked ChatGPT for suggestions to get deeper into the craft of writing. To its credit, none of its recommendations were hallucinated—I double-checked—but instead of that quintessential instructional manual,…
