Saturday, June 24, 2023

The Blue Age by Gregg Easterbrook (2021)

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Tuesday Morning Quarterback (TMQ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday_Morning_Quarterback was my favorite weekly column from 2000 until it...

The Design of Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (2017)

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Since this book was published, a large number of people have spoken to me about it, the topics covered, how great the book is, and why we sh...

Death Trap by Craig Alanson (2019)

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Taking a break from deep, dense fact books that are popping up in my stack, I took a break with some light reading and went back to read the...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Where the Ships Die by William C Dietz (2014)

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I was looking for the 1996 book and got this one.  This 2014 book is terrible. 1/5 Stars.

Noise: A flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein (2021)

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Noise for the purpose of this book is defined as "undesirable variability in judgments of the same problem."  Kahneman and team fo...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (2010)

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I don't remember how I met Corey; I think it was in the late 1980s.  I think I cited him in my PhD thesis. Now that I have entered the a...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Stones of Significance by David Brin (1998)

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My former-neighbor, the physicist and science fiction author David Brin has published a lot of prescient fiction and futurism essays that ha...

Call for the Dead by John Le Carré (1961)

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I thought I had read all of Le Carré's books, including the posthumously published Silverview . I could not remember this one when I saw...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Angriff auf die Freiheit von Juli Zeh und Ilija Trojanow (2009)

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Ich lese alle älteren Bücher von Juli Zeh, während ich in der Bibliothek auf der Warteliste auf die neueren Bücher warte, bis ich an der Rei...

Gauntlet Wars by Aer-ki Jyr (2022)

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Terrible, 1/5 Stars. Stay away.