Book Reviews
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, it…
Review: The Money Trap
My dad gave me some life advice as a kid: If I wanted to make money in my career, I needed to be close to money. Now, we had immigrated from Hong Kong, back then the premier financial hub in…
Review: The Last Lecture
On my bookshelf, there's one shelf that I keep a couple of my favorite books, and on occasion, I rotate one book out for another as I finish a hard copy of a book that really stuck with…
Review: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
How many books unironically validate their own criticisms? Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) aims to illustrate how people often disavow their mistakes and increasingly justify their poor behavior. In doing so, though—and somehow making it to a…
Review: Apple in China
The student has become the master. That was what I was thinking as I was about two-thirds of the way through Apple in China, a book highly recommended by the author of Stratechery as possibly one of the best books…
