How Not to be a Politician
How Not to be a Politician: A Memoir, Rory Stewart, 2023. Stewart is an interesting character, diligent in his responsibilities, but...
Burn Book: Book Review
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, Kara Swisher (2024). Swisher is a journalist and started covering computer and internet-related technology...
Supercommunicators: Book Review
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret of Connections, Charles Duhigg (2024). Duhigg confessed he was not very good at...
These Truths: Book Review
These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore (2022). Introduction: The Question Stated. “We the people …” as a new start, an...
How to Know a Person: Book Review
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, 2023, David Brooks. Part I: I See You. Chapter 1: The Power...
American Psychosis: Book Review
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy, David Corn, 2022. America has a long history of...
Going Infinite: Book Review
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, Michael Lewis, 2023. I finished this book just at the time Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was...
Elon Musk: Book Review
Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson (2023). This is the biography of Musk, once the richest person in the world and the creator of Tesla, SpaceX,...
The Dawn of Innovation: Book Review
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution, Charles Morris, 2012. Introduction: Beginning in the 1820s, there was a...
The Delusions of Crowds: Book Review
The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups, William J. Bernstein (2021). Lot of examples. I’m interested in the psychological...
The World That Trade Created: Book Review
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik (2013)....
The Birth of Plenty: Book Review
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created (2004), William Bernstein. Interesting analysis of what can be...
Knowing What We Know: Book Review
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic, Simon Winchester (2023). A broad brush about...
Silent Spring Revolution: Book Review
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022),...
Philosophy: Book Review
Philosophy: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject (Peter Gibson). Organized by topic rather than period of specific...