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A very fun read. It’s sci-fi, but not of the hyper-futuristic-its-basically-magic sort. Instead, this is a gritty book, firmly grounded in reasonably realistic ph...

It’s a standard Dan Brown book that follows the standard Dan Brown formula. That is: It starts off with Robert Langdon, a completely normal man, doing complet...

A delightful biography of a fascinating man. The book is well written and succeeds both at showing you what Einstein was like as a person and offering a down-to-e...

I’m a bit torn on this book. On the one hand, it’s a wonderful collection of wisdom from many years in the software industry, backed with lots of sources, studies...

Today, I’m happy to announce that Terraform: Up & Running has been published!

An important, remarkable story, poorly told. Before reading this, I knew very little of the role of women, and especially black women, in the space race. The res...

I read this book after having seen Simon Sinek’s TED talk. It turns out, the TED talk is really all you need to watch. This book does little more than repeat that...

In the last few years, I’ve sold all my possessions; lived in three different countries and traveled through a half dozen others; took a year off as a “mini retir...

What a fun read. It’s like Groundhog Day, but instead of repeating a single day over and over again, Harry August repeats his entire life over and over again. The...

This is one of the best books I’ve read on product design and development. Actually, it’s less of a book and more of a slideshow, with tons of stock photos, diagr...