Review: The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
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...
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Review: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
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...
Review: Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
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...
Review: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
A nice history of some of the key players in the history of modern computing.
Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The prose and characters are decent, but not much happens in the plot, and the twist ending is fairly predictable. It’s an OK story, but nothing special, so I’m n...
Review: The Nature of Software Development by Ron Jeffries
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Review: Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
This book is scathing critique of blogs, news, fake news, the media, and how easily they can be—and are—manipulated. This might sound like a niche topic better le...
Review: Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
This is one of those rare instances when the movie/TV adaptation is superior to the book. This book tells the remarkable tale of Easy Company during World War II,...
Review: Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation by Charna Halpern, Del Close, and Kim Howard Johnson
A hit-or-miss book that tries to teach improv. It contains some great insights about comedy, but the book itself is not at all funny; it has a few wonderful sugge...