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Review: A Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel

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…

Review: Secrets of Sand Hill Road

Review: Secrets of Sand Hill Road

For all the founders and startups and unicorns in Silicon Valley—not to mention the leaky data sieve that is the internet—there's remarkably little public, easily accessible information on how venture capital (VC) works. Term sheets, General…

Review: Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Review: Five Dysfunctions of a Team

I've read a good amount of Dan Brown's novels. It's a guilty pleasure in reading; I know that every story features literally the same character, much of the same plot points, dashes of real-world…

Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

The power law. The Pareto Principle. Winner-takes-all. They all recognize an ecosystem where most of the benefits—and profits, as is often the case—accrues to a handful of individual entities, the theory suggesting that this type of uneven distribution…

Review: Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy

Review: Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy

Inventions form many of the foundations of modern society. Many are easily recognizable from children's textbooks: the lightbulb, railroads, the printing press, the internet. Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy explores a set of complementary inventions. This…

Review: Trillion Dollar Coach

Review: Trillion Dollar Coach

Even executives of the Fortune 500 need coaches, too. And if a number of these companies happen to be in Silicon Valley, at a time when the technology industry is dominating the upper-end of public market capitalizations and valuations, someone…