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Showing posts with label Books Non-Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Non-Fiction. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Book Review: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism. Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025).

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Several years ago, I read and reviewed an excellent book from 2016 about Silicon Valley and particularly Facebook called Chaos Monkeys: Insi...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Book Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (2022). Chris Miller.

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I was intrigued this morning to read an article about a growing problem in the latest iterations of new generative AI products. This probl...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Book Review: Abundance (2025). Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson.

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I have long been an admirer of Ezra Klein, his writing and his New York Times podcast The Ezra Klein Show . In my opinion, he is one of the ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Book Review: The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power and Deception on the Eve of World War I (2023). Douglas Brunt.

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During the past year, I've read a number of excellent books that seemed to resonate as part of the backstory to some of the most urgent ...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Book Review: The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025). Chris Hayes.

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I heard on the news last night that this brand new book by the popular MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes has zoomed to the #1 position on the N...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Erik Larson (2024).

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In our fraught era of social and political polarization, we’ve become accustomed to hearing from pundits about how “there’s no precedent for...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Book Review: The Heat Will Kill You First. Jeff Goodell (2023).

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I read this climate change non-fiction book some months ago, and it’s taken me a while to get around to writing a review of it, but I believ...