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When I opened YouTube a few weeks ago, the first video in the recommendation list was a TED talk from Scott Galloway. Given that my normal list is mostly random engineering videos, I was surprised to see the recommendation system show me a talk from one of my favorite authors.... [Read More]

A few months ago, I (admittedly late to the game) read the biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson. After being impressed by the unwavering attention to detail and overall thoroughness of the book, I went to research Isaacson’s background. It has been many months since then, and I... [Read More]

With one hour before my local bookstore closed, I didn’t have a lot of time to comb through the list of books I’d saved in the past months. As I walked into the store, all I wanted was to buy a light-hearted fiction book. Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library caught... [Read More]

The Alchemist: one of those ubiquitous books that I constantly see online, in bookstores, or on friends’ bookshelves. I figured that, at some point, it would be my calling to read it, so I wasn’t surprised when my friend Cole recommended the book a few months ago. [Read More]

With a poignant title and impressive PR rollout plan, Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died surfaced on my radar more than a few times. But with a reading list that is constantly growing and a schedule allowing less and less time for reading, this book never ended up on... [Read More]