Book roundup for 2013
2014-01-27
As an annual exercise, I’ve done a quick review of all the non fiction books I read in 2013. You can find it here. Enjoy! The 2012 one was here.Continue Reading
Book Review: The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver
2013-03-24
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail but Some Don’t, by Nate Silver. Nate Silver is now an election blogger for the New York Times, but started out doing baseball statistics in his spare time while working for KPMG. That became PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and careerContinue Reading
Worth reading in 2012
2013-01-01
I’ve just put up a page of most of the non fiction I read in 2012 – you can check it out here.Continue Reading
Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow
2012-07-22
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman is one of those books to read slowly, and reread multiple times. It is full of fascinating and counterintuitive facts about how we think. That makes it sound dense. It isn’t. I found it very easy to read, devouring it in great gulps,Continue Reading
Book Review: Liars and Outliers, by Bruce Schneier
2012-05-27
Today’s book review is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, by Bruce Schneier. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security guru (he even has his own internet meme). He started out as an expert on cryptography, but he now has much wider security interests. Liars and OutliersContinue Reading
Book Review: Before the Lights go out: Conquering the Energy Crisis before it conquers us
2012-04-25
Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us, by Maggie Koerth-Baker is about energy management and the future in the US. Koerth-Baker’s book is about the energy crisis that is coming, and what the US should do about it. In her view, there are twoContinue Reading
Book Review: Drive, the Surprising Truth about what motivates us, by Daniel H Pink
2012-02-12
Today’s book review is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink. For a quick summary of the thesis, his Ted Talk is a good start, with the bonus that it will only take 20 minutes to watch. And this is a fairly slight book. But the thesis isContinue Reading
Book Review: The End of the Line, by Charles Clover
2010-01-26
Today’s book review is The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat, by Charles Clover. I’ve known, fairly well, for years, that we are overfishing the seas. Reading Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, by Mark Kurlansky, was the first bookContinue Reading
Book Review: Bailout Nation, by Barry Ritholz
2010-01-03
Today’s book review is Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy, by Barry Ritholtz, with Aaron Task. Barry Ritholtz is the author of The Big Picture, a blog I became addicted to when I was trying to make sense of what was going onContinue Reading
Book Review: The Pin Striped Prison, by Lisa Pryor
2009-12-27
Today’s Book Review is The Pinstriped Prison: How overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate, by Lisa Pryor. Lisa Pryor is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald who got 100% in her HSC (school leaving exams). She started a law degree, but ended up a (less well paid) journalist,Continue Reading