Book Reviews
Review: The Manager’s Path
I forget who mentioned The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change to me as an interesting book to pick up, but I do remember thinking that it sounded like the perfect guide to software…
Review: The Upstarts
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World is a journalist's take on how Uber and Airbnb came to exist. These two startups are two of the biggest…
Review: Arkwright
I've been on a sci-fi reading binge lately, and between the likes of Seveneves and the Three-Body Problem trilogy, I've had a good dosage of high-flying, civilization-wide stories that tickles the imagination.…
Review: The Wandering Earth
Given that I wanted more epic short stories after going through Invisible Planets, Liu Cixin's The Wandering Earth—his collection of classic science fiction short stories—seemed like a good bet on delivering grand scale in short(ish)…
Review: Chaos Monkeys
I picked up Chaos Monkeys curious about how it would portray the same Silicon Valley that I've been a part of for over a dozen years. In particular, one of the characters in the narrative—Gokul Rajaram—had…
Review: Invisible Planets
The Three-Body Problem was a fun series. Granted, it won numerous awards, so the quality of the writing[1] and plot points weren’t going in be in question, but I had enjoyed that specific take on science fiction…
