I picked up Chaos Monkeys curious about how it would portray the same Silicon Valley that I've been a part of for over a dozen years. In particular, one of the characters in the narrative—Gokul Rajaram—had led my product organization at Square for a while. At least some parts of the...
The Three-Body Problem was a fun series. Granted, it won numerous awards, so the quality of the writing[1] and plot points weren’t going in be in question, but I had enjoyed that specific...
Death’s End is the last volume of the The Three Body Problem trilogy. Here are the reviews for thefirst and second book. Spoilers ahead, at least for those books. Well, that escalated quickly. I...
A good friend of mine recommended this light reader a couple of weeks ago: Covered Calls Made Easy: Generate Monthly Cash Flow by Selling Options It’s a fairly short book, written and published recently, about how to sell covered call options in the stock market. Essentially: * You sell options to someone else to buy...
Wired launched in 1993. It was a magazine and a website which came about just as modern computing had started to make a difference beyond academia and into everyday life: computers were small and cheap...
America loves itself some self-help and self-improvement. Whether it comes in the form of endless LinkedIn Pulse posts, self-help (and self-promoting) articles on Medium, or the vast industry of self-help books, we are all suckers — myself included — for trying to learn and apply simple techniques that reward our attention and obedience with some improvement in...
