Book Reviews
Review: Artemis
Andy Weir likes his near-future solar system colonization science fiction. With The Martian , his take on sci-fi—light-hearted, yet grounded in real science that's only slightly fantastical and futuristic—meshed into a novel and eventual…
Review: You Are a Badass at Making Money
I'm not sure why I started reading You're a Badass at Making Money. I mean, I saw someone mention they were reading it on my Twitter feed, and Amazon's reviews as well as Goodreads…
Review: Change Agent
Technology will move beyond silicon. That's hard to see now: we're in the midst of smartphones and omnipresent screens and Internet-connected everything , all around us. But it feels like there's a natural limit…
Review: Dan Brown's Origin
You know what you're getting with a Dan Brown novel. His stories follow a recipe: professor Robert Langdon gets caught up in a devious plot involving some combination of technology and religion, which leads him and an attractive…
Review: Blood, Sweat and Pixels
Computer Science 101 is a pretty popular class nowadays. Most of the initial rush of interest is likely due to hype and the elevation of tech in popular culture, but many who wade into the field thinking it's…
Review: Radical Candor
On several occasions, I've had the opportunity to participate in management training classes offered by my employer. Despite having taken the lessons a decade apart, during different phrases of my career, and with a varied set of instructors—…
