Category: Book reviews
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TinyMBA — A quick read full of profound strategic ideas
I’ve been in business since 1995. And I’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way. When I speak with other people who have been in business, I find that I’m not alone; we’ve all make a lot of mistakes along the way. It’s not because I didn’t seek out advice. Heck, I asked for…
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Why you should read “Weapons of Math Destruction”
Review of “Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy,” by Cathy O’Neil Over the last few years, the study of statistics has taken on new meaning and importance with the emergence of “data science,” an imprecisely defined discipline that merges aspects of statistics with computer science. Google, Amazon, and Facebook…
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Book Review: The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
In order to get an undergraduate degree from MIT, at least when I was there, you needed to take a certain number of humanities and social-science courses. This was to stop you from coming out a complete one-dimensional student; the idea was that rounding out your education with knowledge from other fields was good for…