Book Reviews
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…
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…
Review: The Expanse Series
The Expanse is a sci-fi series, that started out—and is continuing—as a series of novels but whose story has also been adapted to a television series of the same name. On the literary front, the books are…
Review: Brief Answers to the Big Questions
In my high school, the hard sciences were taught by grade: 10th grade Biology, 11th grade Chemistry, and 12th grade Physics. I was most drawn to physics, both in its proximity to mathematics but also in its expansive theories that…
