Blog, Page 75

Most business books focus on huge, public companies, or companies striving to become big and public. Most business strategy is all about growing as big as possibl...

The rare combination of excellent book and excellent movie. I’m honestly not sure which I like better. I saw the movie first, years ago, and some of the imagery ...

Lots of important ideas and insights, buried in smug, self-congratulatory advertisement for the author’s company.

This is one of those rare cases where: Both the movie and book are great. The movie is actually better than the book. It’s the story of two stage magician...

The actual lecture is better (go watch it on YouTube!), but the book is pretty good too. Professors are often asked to give a “Last Lecture” where they imagine w...

A tale of a planet that periodically goes through “seasons” of catastrophic climate change (extreme temperatures, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis), and the magic...

Entertaining audiobook, funny PDF, and a few interesting insights about show business (especially around photoshoots, photoshop, and how shows are shopped around ...

Reasonably entertaining whodunnit. There are some decent twists in the story, and while the ending is guessable part way through, the book still does a good job o...

The good

An amazing collection of SciFi short stories. Just about every single one is deeply thought-provoking, beautifully written, and unforgettable. Highly, highly reco...