Book Reviews
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…
Review: Die with Zero
The title gives away the ending— Die with Zero is a book about maximizing your financial resources, such that there ought to be nary a cent left by the time you move to the farm upstate to hang out with…
Review: Uncanny Valley
I first figured that Uncanny Valley , from its back-of-the-book description, is just another tech industry exposé. As a 20-year resident of this area, I'm not exactly its intended audience, and so the shock value…
Review: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
What Got You Here Won't Get You There feels like a book written for a past era. The author is an executive coach—an actual one, who regularly takes on Fortune 500 C-level executives as clients, as…
Review: If You Want to Write
Off of the glowing recommendation in Wise Guy that this is the book to read if you aspire to be an author, I took a quick read of Brenda Ueland's most famous publication If You Want to Write.…
