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Every single person in tech should read this book. Or if you’re just interested in tech. Or if you just want a basic appreciation of one of the most important tec...

I had seen the first two Godfather movies before reading this book, so I can’t review the book on its own merits, but only in comparison to the movies. It’s the e...

A strange, but moving book. It’s written in the format of letters to Coates’ son, so it feels like a stream of consciousness or a sermon, with beautiful, poetic w...

Pros The discussion on how to move from early adopters to early majority (“crossing the chasm”) was insightful. In short: you need the “whole product.” While ...

I loved “The Remains of the Day”, but I don’t entirely understand this story. At the surface, it appears to be a fantasy story of an old couple traveling through ...

This book would’ve been far better as a blog post. It makes several important arguments in the preface and then repeats them over and over again for a few hundred...

This book is a so-so whodunnit / thriller. The mystery in the story and the plot twists keep you reading, and they are somewhat memorable, but unfortunately, that...

Some parts of this book are laugh-until-you-cry-and-your-stomach-hurts funny (the description of European countries, and England in particular, are amazing). Some...

I put off reading this book for weeks, because the subject matter seemed fairly boring. How wrong I was. This book is extraordinary, though it’s hard to put into ...

As usual with Brandon Sanderson, the writing is excellent, there are some badass battle scenes, a couple deep, fun characters, some witty dialog, and some great p...