“Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” Jim Urie recommended this book. Yes, the man who used to run Universal Distribution, the guy who was featured so prominently in the Tower Records documentary. And I didn’t expect it to be good, after all, it was released over […]

The Girl On The Train What’s it like to be jilted? Thrown over for a new love when you’ve placed your full trust in your betrothed? Trust. It’s the first thing that goes. That’s the dirty little secret of divorce. Conventional wisdom is you split the assets and go on with your life, especially if […]

I’m finished. I’d like to tell you it’s an easy satisfying read but the truth is despite the book being billed as a Facebook expose, the first half, when Antonio Garcia Martinez is delineating his travails in a startup, is much more interesting than the details of his tenure at the social network thereafter. And […]

“Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley” Maybe we should all read this together. I’m serious. You’ve got a smartphone, probably a tablet too. The Kindle app is free, you go to Amazon (Amazon won’t let you buy the book through the iPhone or iPad app, it doesn’t want to cough up […]