Books

I love new toys. It had been a while (at least two weeks) since my last one. I was sitting next to Howard Morgan at a meeting catching up and

Syriana was one of my favorite movies last year – the Bob Barnes character captured my imagination completely. When I found out that Bob Baer’s books See No Evil and Sleepi

Machine Beauty by David Gelernter was phenomenal. I love the notion that a book written in 1998 should be classified as “a classic”, but given the premise of the book and

My friend Ben Casnocha’s book titled My Start-Up Life hits the stores on May 18th. The website for the book – being published with Jossey-Bass (Wiley) is up. It’s al

Christopher Buckley is a genius. I’ve written about how I’ve loved his previous books Thank You For Smoking and Florence of Arabia. I read Boomsday over the weekend – it&

Amy and I just got back from an awesome week off. We flew to Laguna Beach for our Q1 vacation, disconnected completely, and hid from the world for a week. Lots

If you’ve ever been a management consultant you’ll love Consulting Demons by Lewis Pinault. My first company (Feld Technologies) did a lot of work for and with a major east coas

Every now and then I realize that I had a theme to my weekend reading. This weekend I absorbed three books: Ego Check, Toilets of the World, and The No

I just spent the last four hours lying on the couch reading Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software. I’ve been

My reading pace has been slower than usual lately. I digested a few books in January including Sweet and Low (the story of Sweet and Low and the fascinating machinations