Blog, Page 79

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...

This book is effectively a bullet point list of “plays” to build a successful company, based on what Marc Benioff did at Salesforce. Initially, I disliked the boo...

Reading about astrophysics is always a thought-provoking and humbling experience. This book is a collection of ideas, essays, and questions from astrophysics that...

A book full of powerful, important ideas that could have a major impact on how you see the world, all wrapped in dense, academic writing that is not particularly ...