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It presents the viewpoint that we’re not careening into failure. We’re already there. Ours is a state soon to be hollowed out by failed cities. America was murdered. What we live in is fundamentally different from what we had. We’re in the middle of launching what is new. Its time to approach it that way.
The Start-Up of You Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha have written a book for people with normal jobs. Corporate jobs. What they call the “escalator model.” Show up for 9-5 every day, earn promotions every so often, and get a steady paycheck. The two explain that the classic model is dying. Then they explain in [...]
Honestly, this book is probably a pain to read and forgettable unless you’re interested in the subject matter. That said, if you’re interested in getting an inside look at the Google’s story, this is the book for you. It came out in April of 2011, just when Schmidt stepped out of the way, so it [...]
Read this in a couple hours. Lashinsky does a pretty good job delving into what makes Apple tick. It’s a decent accompaniment to the Jobs biography. It paints a clearer picture of how Bottom line, Apple is a company of cogs. Finely honed cogs that do their jobs exceedingly well, but cogs. No generalists. Masters of [...]
Black Market Billions This book is probably what happens when you write a book about something interesting – organized retail crime (ORC) – but your agent/publisher wants you to connect it to a bigger market – global terrorism. The whole thing suffers. This would have been a stronger book had it just [...]