Book Reviews
Think Like a Freak
Freakonomics was the book that, in my mind, started the "pop economics" trend: a brand of economics, applied to subjects that are relatable to the general public, targeted towards a mass audience as a different take on familiar…
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Those of us who grew up with video games in the 90s fondly remember the "console wars" of that era. There was Nintendo, with its iconic Super Nintendo system, filled to the brim with Mario and Yoshi and…
Everything is Bullshit
Pricenomics is a startup that has somehow stumbled upon a pair of business models: data crawling, and blogging about data from a consumer-centric perspective. The latter has a pop-culture economics bent; it's a technique taken straight…
Flash Boys
I'm convinced that ever since humans have invented this idea of trade, that there soon followed people, with the idea that they can profit as middlemen, even if they have nothing to buy or sell directly. This concept…
Hatching Twitter
One of my guilty reading pleasures is tech company biographies. That I'm a part of the industry and can relate to the motivations of founders and early employees is a given; I've followed companies' chronologies…
Cloud Atlas
I'll admit: I picked up the Cloud Atlas novel mostly because the trailer for the movie adaption of the same name looked pretty interesting, a juxtaposition of what seemed like many different places and time periods and themes.…
