Books

I get a lot of questions about “the best entrepreneurship / venture capital books.” Q106 promises to be a good quarter for them as Tom Evslin’s hackoff.com: An Historic Murder

I’m a huge James Frey fan – I loved both of his books A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard. He’s recently been beaten up for embellishing his story as

When I was in Aspen in December, I once again found myself sitting in a house with Internet access (via DSL) but without wireless. This time there were only three of

My long time friend Scott Moody once told me that “old computers are like porn to me.” I agree – over the years I’ve spend my fair share of money

Another day, another question to answer that was stuck in my “answer this question on your blog” someday folder in Outlook. When I got my new IBM X41 tablet in

I took a break from Carnegie (which is amazing, but it’s massive – really two books) to gobble down some mental floss yesterday. Stephen Frey’s new book The Protege i

Fooled By Randomness was unquestionably the best non-fiction book I read in 2005. The author – Nassim Nicholas Taleb – is a magnificent writer, deeply intellectual, and delightfully

Reading today’s episode of hackoff.com gave me the chills. Tom has deeply woven the events of 9/11 in his story as Chapter 10 happens on 9/11 (and several of the main

Tom Evslin’s brilliant blook hackoff.com is grinding through the April 1, 2000 – June 30, 2000 time frame. If you were an executive at a company during Q200 you’ve got

David Baldacci is in my regular “mental floss” book rotation – whenever one of his books comes out it immediately ends up in the “read when you need a break