Book Reviews
Naming Things Good
A colleague reminded me of this corny computer science joke a couple months back: There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. Though there are some who dispute the difficulty of naming things,…
Review: The Victory Machine
Apparently I have more confidence in your abilities than you do. - Bill Parcells, NFL coach, trying to motivate an underperforming player without insult I’ve always held admiration for professional sports, in its lessons around management and perseverance and…
Review: Always Day One
Did you know that there's an internal tools team within Apple that's staffed by contractors looking primarily to stay employed? Can you find a way to tie that to Amazon's infamous "It is…
Review: Art of the Good Life
Early on, it wasn't clear that Art of the Good Life was going to be much different than countless other self-help books that promise the nirvana of disproportionate self-driven improvement that eventually leads to, well, the good life.…
Review: Exhalation
Exhalation is the latest collection of short stories from science fiction writer Ted Chiang. As with his previous book, Stories of Your Life and Others , the set of stories is collected and curated across a fairly wide range of settings,…
Review: A Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel
The Three-Body Problem is the Chinese science fiction series; it’s a grand romp through a first alien encounter sci-fi trope that gets progressively more epic with each novel, culminating with the fate of the universe and any humans that…
