Book Reviews
Review: Children of Time
Science fiction usually has to cheat with space travel. The distance and time scales required to work through anything interesting in the grand vastness of interstellar travel is incomprehensible. If sci-fi stories actually try to stay true with physics-as-we-know-it, they&…
Review: The Making of a Manager
There is certainly no shortage of management books[1]. Most of the good ones are written by tenured executives, while the advice bestowed by management consultants tends to be hit-or-miss. I've come across more books recently which authored…
Review: Creative Selection
Within two chapters, I realized that I may not be the right audience for Creative Selection. A book written by a software engineer at Apple through its revival of the Mac and introduction of the iPhone, it goes through—in…
Review: Hit Refresh
As of this writing, Microsoft is one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market cap in the $800 billion+ range in early 2019. It's a spectacular reversal of fortunes, when only a couple years…
Review: NieR: Automata: Long Story Short
NieR: Automata was a critically acclaimed action game with heavy RPG and story elements first released in 2017. Its success was quite surprising: it’s a sequel to a series of good-but-not-widely-loved games in NieR and previously Drakengard; the gameplay…
Review: Bad Blood
The meteoric rise and fall of Theranos is fantastical, to the point where reality feels like fiction, and its characters and events seem like the work of an overenthusiastic author. Bad Blood is a book that chronicles the startup, tracing…
