Posts tagged with Reading
Review: Super Nintendo
I picked up the book Super Nintendo expecting to read about the greatest gaming console of all time. Instead, I got a thoughtful chronicle of the greatest gaming company of all time. So, still a worthwhile read—particularly for video…
Review: New Money
The thesis is right there in the title. New Money: How Payment Became Social Media: Swartz, Lana: 9780300233223: Amazon.com: BooksNew Money: How Payment Became Social Media [Swartz, Lana] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. New Money: How…
Review: On Writing Well
I was thinking of The Elements of Style. I asked ChatGPT for suggestions to get deeper into the craft of writing. To its credit, none of its recommendations were hallucinated—I double-checked—but instead of that quintessential instructional manual, it…
Review: The Money Trap
My dad gave me some life advice as a kid: If I wanted to make money in my career, I needed to be close to money. Now, we had immigrated from Hong Kong, back then the premier financial hub in…
Review: The Last Lecture
On my bookshelf, there's one shelf that I keep a couple of my favorite books, and on occasion, I rotate one book out for another as I finish a hard copy of a book that really stuck with…
Review: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
How many books unironically validate their own criticisms? Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) aims to illustrate how people often disavow their mistakes and increasingly justify their poor behavior. In doing so, though—and somehow making it to a…
