Books

Cryptoassets Review

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

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: October 31th, 2017 Reading Time: Two weeks; audiobook This is an American horror story. Similar to Ioan Grillo’s El Narco, the narrative drags you into

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: October 27th, 2017 Reading Time: A week By the time I finished reading the first page, I was overcome with the feeling that something was missing. Oh,

I finished listening to my first audio book yesterday. It was The Firm, a classic legal thriller by John Grisham. I liked the book. I rated it four stars. But I can’t help but feel like a hypocrite for what

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: October 19th, 2017 Reading Time: A week Note: At time of posting this here, this is my most popular

4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss Rating: ★ Date Finished: October 15th, 2017 Reading Time: Three days A seminal propagandist work poisoning the minds of Americans young and old. Though Tim Ferriss dedicates more than a few sentences to his musings

When Supertraders Meet Kryptonite Review

When Supertraders Meet Kryptonite by Art Collins Rating: ★ Date Finished: September 13th, 2017 Reading Time: A week, evenings at work Low-quality book that I couldn’t recommend to anyone. Of all I’ve read on trading, finance, and triumphant accumulation of