Coming on the heels of “inside Apple” and others in this category, I can’t resist delving into this latest entry in the growing canon of books that analyze Apple’s success.


STATUS: COMPLETED 6/10/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
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Tags: apple, business, advertising, marketing

Because Kahneman is supposed to have influenced Gladwell (a favorite of mine) and because I have been on something of a brain book jag, I’m in. This one examines two kinds of thinking, intuitive (think Gladwell’s “Blink”) and deliberate.

STATUS: IN PROGRESS
MY RATING: TBD
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Tags: science, brain

I have long been an Apple enthusiast and am also a student of the company’s intriguing internal culture. Of course, I also enjoyed Isaacson’s excellent bio Steve Jobs, so selected this on that basis.


STATUS: COMPLETED 5/09/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
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Tags: apple, business

I heard this book mentioned somewhere in the media and, having enjoyed books like Levy’s Crypto and Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, I thought the story of von Neumann’s Institute for Advanced Study would be right up my alley.

STATUS: COMPLETED 5/21/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
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Tags: science, history, computers

I’ve gotten interested in Ray Kurzweil after watching the Transcendent Man documentary and find his views and interests similar to my own, so I look forward to this book.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/27/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)
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Tags: science, singularity, self-improvement

My preferred firearm is the Glock 21 (which I saw as the “Mac of guns” back in the late 80’s), so I thought this well-reviewed book would be interesting.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/10/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)
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Tags: history, business

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Kevin Mitnick’s more recent biographical “Man On A Wire,” I wanted to go back and read his classic social engineering primer for IT professionals.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/03/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
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Tags: hackers, security

I enjoyed “Spark” and am going to continue to read some of the more interesting books out there on the function of the brain. I guess this is part of my Kurweilian effort to re-engineer my own biology.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/01/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
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Tags: science, brain, biology, self-improvement

Having enjoyed Levy’s In The Plex I thought I’d deepen my Google knowledge a bit and hopefully pick up on a bit of gossip and intrigue along the way (figures--I used to be a big Valleywag fan).


STATUS: COMPLETED 3/29/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
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Tags: google, business