When Genius Failed covers the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). LTCM’s partners and traders including John Meriwether, David Mullins, Eric Rosenfeld, Gregory Hawkins, Larry Hilibrand, Victor Haghani, Myron Scholes, Robert C. Merton and the Wall Street banks form the crux of the story. The first half of the [...]
Michael Lewis’s fascinating page-turner, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine takes us through the Subprime mortgage market through the eyes of the cast of characters who not only saw the coming crisis but bet heavily on the catastrophe, and won big. What’s interesting about the cast of characters is their contrarian view on the [...]
Set during the NBA 2005-06 season, ace sportswriter, Jack McCallum spends time with the Phoenix Suns as an “Assistant Coach” and covers the inner-workings of an NBA team. The book stems from an article Jack wrote during the pre-season which turned out to be quite popular. The name of the book refers to Coach Mike [...]
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines by Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle of Google introduces the notion of WSC’s (warehouse-scale computers); an Internet service that spans thousands of computing nodes and the associated hardware that goes along with it as a single computing unit. The book goes [...]
Paul English, co-founder of Kayak – Startup Advice: – Hiring – Venture Financing – Time Management – Trust Models – Usability Testing Todd Sattersten: Fixed to Flexible, 4 simple lessons about cost, price, margin & the options. (ebook)
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I got a sneak peak at Peter Seibel’s long awaited Coders at Work. Superb book! My familiarity with the folks being interviewed varied; some I knew well, some in passing and some I had never heard of — like Bernie Cosell & Dan Ingalls. All the interviews were great to read, some of them were [...]