Entrepreneur, author, analyst. Stop Saying You’re Fine: Discover a More Powerful You I don’t normally read this kind of thing. Got it a review copy (free, had a three hour drive to kill). Lots of gimmicks, un-cited academic studies, and a gaggle of faceless names with absurd stories -drug addicts, etc. Really weird in it’s focus. Way outside [...]
I had no interest in watching the movie anyway, but this unethical extortion under the guise of law on the part of the producers seals the deal. While the initial rumors said that there would be “tens of thousands” of lawsuits — and some had predicted over 100,000 — at least the initial burst is [...]
Part of the larger offensive on the part of Goldman Sachs (We aren’t evil! We swear!). Here’s Ezra Klein whoring himself out to an unnamed Harvard grad (composite character?) who worked at Goldman. He asks some hard hitting questions like: The impression of the Ivy-to-Wall Street pipeline is that it’s all about the money. You’re [...]
I read a book last night called Supervirus by Andrew Mitchell. Basically, it reads like a skin-deep version of Daemon. But that’s OK. Basically, cliche characters jet around trying to find the world’s smartest hacker, then stumble into a Jurassic Park-like botnet-and-gorilla-infused hell island and we see things go haywire. It reads… pretty much exactly [...]
Read through Matt Carr essay titled Slouching Towards Dystopia: The New Military Futurism. It’s a mildly interesting mixed bag. His thesis is that this kind of futurism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. While he critique of the over-the-top stuff coming out of DoD and Booz is somewhat on target, I don’t buy that argument. Sunshine and [...]