Review: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
I first came across the sci-fi author Ken Liu via his translation of the first book of the Chinese epic series Remembrance of Earth's Past , i.e., The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu....
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Review: Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness, written by Tony Hsieh[1], was on my Kindle backlog for a number of years. When he shockingly and suddenly passed away late last year, the outpouring of grief reminded me that, despite...
Review: The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
Come for the NBA Jam, stay for the real world applications of Big Data. That’s the premise of The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks , anyway. The book talks about the phenomenon...
Review: Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors is worth, as of this writing, $650 billion. It had this unprecedented run up in market cap and stock price in the past 18 months, for reasons that are still not entirely clear,...
Review: Die with Zero
The title gives away the ending— Die with Zero is a book about maximizing your financial resources, such that there ought to be nary a cent left by the time you move to the farm...
Review: Uncanny Valley
I first figured that Uncanny Valley , from its back-of-the-book description, is just another tech industry exposé. As a 20-year resident of this area, I'm not exactly its intended audience, and so the shock...