I went through a theoretical physics phase in high school. Our school only offered the standard high school courses, but I started collecting, and became enamored, with books written by famous contemporary physicists: Carl Sagan,...
Twitter—as a company, as a business, as a social network—has always taken on outsized importance relative to its stature. Perhaps it's because it's the social network of journalists, but...
A quick disclaimer: Jack Danger, the author of Executive Engineering , is a friend and former colleague. We worked together as fellow engineers and engineering managers at Square, and our paths have crossed serendipitously in subsequent...
It's been rough for crypto for the past couple of years. Beyond the crypto winter and the downward swing in token prices, there was the resounding implosion of FTX last year, followed this...
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is a rough read. Matthew Perry was an actor from a young age, an addict—of alcohol and drugs and fame and fortune, and an advocate for substance abuse. The book chronicles his upbringing as a son of divorced, celebrity parents, and how he made his way to...
I heard about the sci-fi novel Exadelic from this TechCrunch book review. Going through the first dozen chapters, I wasn't sure there was much more to add than what the reviewer identified right in the title of the book: it's Ready Player One , Silicon Valley edition, where the divisive insider references...
