Book Reviews
Review: Exhalation
Exhalation is the latest collection of short stories from science fiction writer Ted Chiang. As with his previous book, Stories of Your Life and Others , the set of stories is collected and curated across a fairly wide range of settings,…
Review: A Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel
The Three-Body Problem is the Chinese science fiction series; it’s a grand romp through a first alien encounter sci-fi trope that gets progressively more epic with each novel, culminating with the fate of the universe and any…
Review: Secrets of Sand Hill Road
For all the founders and startups and unicorns in Silicon Valley—not to mention the leaky data sieve that is the internet—there's remarkably little public, easily accessible information on how venture capital (VC) works. Term sheets, General…
Review: Five Dysfunctions of a Team
I've read a good amount of Dan Brown's novels. It's a guilty pleasure in reading; I know that every story features literally the same character, much of the same plot points, dashes of real-…
Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The power law. The Pareto Principle. Winner-takes-all. They all recognize an ecosystem where most of the benefits—and profits, as is often the case—accrues to a handful of individual entities, the theory suggesting that this type of…
Review: Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy
Inventions form many of the foundations of modern society. Many are easily recognizable from children's textbooks: the lightbulb, railroads, the printing press, the internet. Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy explores a set of complementary inventions. This…
