Book Reviews
Review: The Fund
I read Ray Dalio's Principles back in 2018. Without much knowledge beforehand of Bridgewater Associates or its emblematic founder, I found the book to be a reasonable autobiography paired with some scattershot advice. It didn't live…
Review: Keep Calm and Code On
Keep Calm and Code On is a book that discusses what it takes to develop software professionally, not so much the technical aspects but lessons learned through experience. The subtitle is "A tactical guide for navigating the pitfalls of…
Review: Quantum Supremacy
I went through a theoretical physics phase in high school. Our school only offered the standard high school courses, but I started collecting, and became enamored, with books written by famous contemporary physicists: Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Brian…
Review: Extremely Hardcore
Twitter—as a company, as a business, as a social network—has always taken on outsized importance relative to its stature. Perhaps it's because it's the social network of journalists, but it has more books written…
Review: Executive Engineering
A quick disclaimer: Jack Danger, the author of Executive Engineering , is a friend and former colleague. We worked together as fellow engineers and engineering managers at Square, and our paths have crossed serendipitously in subsequent years as we travel in…
Review: Going Infinite
It's been rough for crypto for the past couple of years. Beyond the crypto winter and the downward swing in token prices, there was the resounding implosion of FTX last year, followed this year by Binance's…
