Book Reviews
Review: The Inevitable
Wired launched in 1993. It was a magazine and a website which came about just as modern computing had started to make a difference beyond academia and into everyday life: computers were small and cheap enough to thrive as a…
Review: Fearless Salary Negotiation
America loves itself some self-help and self-improvement. Whether it comes in the form of endless LinkedIn Pulse posts, self-help (and self-promoting) articles on Medium, or the vast industry of self-help books, we are all suckers…
Review: Little Rice — Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
I’ve read my share of books and articles on the current economic and political phenomenon that is China. I’m interested in part because of my own ethnicity and complex relationship with the country, and in part because its…
Review: The Dip
I read The Dip by Seth Godin because it promised to be a short book on self-improvement. It’s supposed to teach its readers how to decide to follow through on a personal or professional project, right there in…
Review: Ready Player One
This year is the year of virtual reality. All the headsets launching this year is creating a lot of excitement, but given the price points and the 1.0-nature of these launches, I’m not quite ready to jump…
Review: The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
It seems inevitable that by the end of this decade, we’ll reach a new level of software automation in our lives never seen before. Between drones and robotics and autonomous cars and possibly the Internet of Things and automated…
