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Review: Careless People

Review: Careless People
Messy hotel room

There's a particular subgenre of tech industry book that piques my interest. Chaos Monkeys, Uncanny Valley, Extremely Hardcore—they purport to reveal the dirty underbelly of Silicon Valley, a true on-the-ground retelling of major events and points in…

Review: The Belgariad and The Malloreon

Review: The Belgariad and The Malloreon
Fantasy capsule

It was raining again. The young student peered out the window, the skies overcast with gray clouds tracing rivers from the sky, soaking the earth until dirt paths became muddy trails. A journey of two thousand leagues has culminated in…

Review: Ask Iwata

Review: Ask Iwata
Super Mario Bros

Ask Iwata is a fairly unique biography, as far as biographies go. Satoru Iwata was the beloved Global President of Nintendo Corporation Limited. It's a posthumous memoir, but one written based not on lengthy engagements with professional journalists—…

Review: The Ride of a Lifetime

Review: The Ride of a Lifetime
Disney World Castle

I was recommended a few years back by a colleague to read through The Ride of a Lifetime. It's an autobiographical memoir from the then—and current , unretired—CEO of the Walt Disney Corporation, Bob Iger. His book…

Review: Interior Chinatown

Review: Interior Chinatown
kung fu on the streets

Some 18 months ago, I noticed and wrote about the surge of Asian-American cinema in Hollywood. Crazy Rich Asians was the breakout movie, but Everything Everywhere All at Once made the movie subgenre mainstream, dominating the 95th Academy Awards and…

Review: Shift Happens

Review: Shift Happens
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Shift Happens is a labor of love. The author, Marcin Wichary, quit his job to start the process of writing this book[1], taking 5–6 years of research, photography, design, and writing to publish. It's a 2-volume…