Book Reviews
Review: The Money Trap
My dad gave me some life advice as a kid: If I wanted to make money in my career, I needed to be close to money. Now, we had immigrated from Hong Kong, back then the premier financial hub in…
Review: The Last Lecture
On my bookshelf, there's one shelf that I keep a couple of my favorite books, and on occasion, I rotate one book out for another as I finish a hard copy of a book that really stuck with…
Review: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
How many books unironically validate their own criticisms? Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) aims to illustrate how people often disavow their mistakes and increasingly justify their poor behavior. In doing so, though—and somehow making it to a…
Review: Apple in China
The student has become the master. That was what I was thinking as I was about two-thirds of the way through Apple in China, a book highly recommended by the author of Stratechery as possibly one of the best…
Review: Careless People
There's a particular subgenre of tech industry book that piques my interest. Chaos Monkeys, Uncanny Valley, Extremely Hardcore—they purport to reveal the dirty underbelly of Silicon Valley, a true on-the-ground retelling of major events and…
Review: The Belgariad and The Malloreon
It was raining again. The young student peered out the window, the skies overcast with gray clouds tracing rivers from the sky, soaking the earth until dirt paths became muddy trails. A journey of two thousand leagues has culminated in…
