Category Archives for Review
Reviews of products and books for the future by Shlok Vaidya.
Review: Super Sad True Love Story
This is a pretty entertaining read about falling in love while the world goes mad and consequently falls down around you. In that sense, it’s a novel of a generation, one that will speak to many. Some interesting ideas re: what … Continue reading
Review: Collapse
The content in this documentary is old hat (peak oil, financial fraud, etc), as is the remedy (holons, DIY, gardening etc), and it’s very much over the top at times (the intro references to the intelligence community are irritating). I … Continue reading
Review: CarlSays is Really Cool
creating local deals using checkins. This reflects the correct approach to this kind of product: Build atop existing activity. The next step to this is to capture conversations in addition to checkins. Essentially, a variant of this. -Shlok Sign up … Continue reading
Review: Plunder
is a documentary about… well, the plundering of the public by mortgage brokers and Wall Street. It’s a pretty decent primer about mortgage backed securities for those looking to figure out what’s going on. It fails went it comes to … Continue reading
On Sovereign Cities + Architecture
Glass House Conversations is a pretty cool idea. (It’d be better if they incorporated more multimedia in the discussion, a whiteboard, 60 second videos, etc.) There was one run by Geoff of BLDGBLOG on the impact quasi-independent cities will have … Continue reading