Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else – Book Review
It looks like I’m continuing my long list of book reviews on my blog. Here’s a review of Linked by Albert-László Barabási (yes, I copy-pasta’ed that). Linked is the story of the birth of graph...
View ArticleThe Victorian Internet – Book Review
A book that I read recently, Connected, made reference to another book called The Victorian Internet. I checked it out of the library and ended up reading it pretty quickly. Despite the name, the...
View ArticleIn Defense of Food: Book Review
According to Michael Pollan, food has been disappearing from supermarkets around the country. It’s being replaced by food-products, which are not quite food. In Defense of Food argues that we should...
View ArticleThe Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker – Book Review
As a first (or second, however you may define it) Asian American, I have often pondered about race, heritage and what it means to be an Asian Born in America. I’m an ABC. Eric Liu’s The Accidental...
View ArticleCheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture – Book Review
I recently picked up a copy of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. As a self proclaimed cheapskate (I picked this book up from the library, after all!), I was very interested in the subject....
View ArticleBloggers: Get a Free Advance Copy of “Delivering Happiness” To Review!
I had a conversation with someone about how I still have a blog, and that it’s totally old school to write one. I mean, everyone’s microblogging, etc now, right? Well I guess I’ll have the last laugh...
View ArticleThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Book Review
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about work, passion, fulfillment, etc. Maybe I spoke too soon when I wrote about not having a Quarterlife Crisis! So I picked up this book, “The Element,” about...
View ArticleDelivering Happiness: Book Review
I received an advance copy of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos. I am posting the book review today because it’s also the official release...
View ArticleRework: Book Review
Rework, a book by 37signals (the guys who made Ruby on Rails), is a pretty simple book. It’s appropriately simple, because the book is almost entirely about simplifying things, and the positive...
View ArticlePriceless: The Myth of Fair Value – Book Review
I just recently finished reading a book, so I better write up a review so I can collect my free Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pizza! I read about Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value on Aaron Swartz’s 2010 Book...
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