“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 […]

“The Voyeur’s Motel” It’s an easy read and it’s fantastic. Ignore the controversy, within its pages Mr. Talese ponders the unreliability of his voyeur narrator. Hell, even if the whole thing were made up, and it’s not, Gay visited the motel and saw the viewing posts and looked in on the action himself, the insights […]

“House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge” This book is so good you cannot put it down. You’ll stay up all night reading it, blowing off your networking breakfast as you learn the true rules of life, how the game is really played. I don’t give a shit if you know nothing […]

They were so untogether! We think of the Stones as a seamless machine, all-knowing, hoovering up cash from all over the globe. But back in ’69 they had a personnel change, they hadn’t performed in America since ’66, and they just weren’t sure they were relevant, that they’d be embraced by the newly-hippified States, having […]