Book Reviews
Review: Arriving Today
In the Prologue chapter of Arriving Today , the author makes an unusual concession: they wrote a long book, and sometimes it can get into technical nitty-gritty that strays a bit far afield from the logistical arc premised by the…
Review: The Innovation Stack
For the past couple of years, I've been narcassistically keeping an eye out for a tell-all book about Square. Of the cohort of startups founded in the late 2000s to early 2010s, we were certainly one of…
Review: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
I first came across the sci-fi author Ken Liu via his translation of the first book of the Chinese epic series Remembrance of Earth's Past , i.e., The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. I thought he…
Review: Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness, written by Tony Hsieh[1], was on my Kindle backlog for a number of years. When he shockingly and suddenly passed away late last year, the outpouring of grief reminded me that, despite these recent years away from…
Review: The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
Come for the NBA Jam, stay for the real world applications of Big Data. That’s the premise of The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks , anyway. The book talks about the phenomenon of the hot hand —that…
Review: Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors is worth, as of this writing, $650 billion. It had this unprecedented run up in market cap and stock price in the past 18 months, for reasons that are still not entirely clear, to now reach a market…
