December, 2017 | Tim O'Hearn

Grocery Review

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 31st, 2017 Reading Time: Two days Grocery was the last book I read in 2017 and it was a formidable contender for top

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 28th, 2017 Reading Time: Three years MMTG provides an insider’s take on the history of hedge funds using language

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings Review

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip Fisher Rating: ★★ Date Finished: December 26th, 2017 Reading Time: Three years, shelved for a long time This book is significant and its author is a legend. However, we’re kidding

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: December 24th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon This book wasn’t what I was expecting. I guess that’s what

Rating: ★ Date Finished: December 23rd, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon I’m not one to judge a book by its cover, but the frontage of The Predictors somehow managed to encapsulate everything wrong with America’s perception of tech in the

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: December 22nd, 2017 Reading Time: A day and a half My college roommate called me the other day. He told me

Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 18th, 2017 Reading Time: Three days I almost pulled the trigger on reading this book several times. I always held off due to tepid reviews. This was mostly a good thing only because, in the

Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Shows Executives How to Thrive in a Competitive Environment Rating: ★★ Date Finished: December 12th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon A prototypical pit trader forms an unlikely[1] alliance

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 1st, 2017 Reading Time: Ten days; Audible Liar’s Poker—remember that book? I wonder how it was received in 1989. It’s now