Books
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Book Review: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble
Dan Lyons’ “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble” is laugh-out-loud funny in places, as one would expect from Dan, creator of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, comic novelist, and a writer for HBO’s Silicon Valley. But it is also an unexpectedly personal and serious book. Dan doesn’t just lob one-liners from the sidelines, but…
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Book Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
The latest in digital technology and Big Data in particular are increasingly fodder for novelists. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer is a wry story of mostly earnest millennials who end up in “pitched battle with a fascist consortium of data miners”. The Google–esque bad guys are too nerdy and tone-deaf to achieve full-on Bond…
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The Rise of the Machines – A Reading List
A recurring theme from this summer’s reading: The Fear Index – Robert HarrisHarris is best known for relatively highbrow historical thrillers spanning ancient Rome to the Second World War but has been inhabiting the present of late. Here he delivers a taut thriller where a quant hedge fund’s black box moves beyond trading the markets…