Category: review
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Emotional prisoner — a review of Without You, There Is No Us
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim After listening to her emotional interview on CBC’s The Current I quickly bought Suki Kim’s memoir of her two semesters teaching English in North Korea Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of…
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Quarterly review: FY14Q3
Each quarter I do a quick roundup of the book and film reviews that I do on Goodreads and Letterboxd. These reviews are too short and off-the-cuff to be included with the more indepth reviews I do on this site. Books Well, I completed my my 2014 Goodreads reading challenge a bit earlier than usual.…
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On the contrary — A review of Zero to One
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters This book is incomplete and thus unsatisfying. It is a condensed version of Peter Thiel’s Stanford class. It takes less than 4 hours to read, compared to 19 meetings in the classroom. Without context, footnotes, and evidence,…
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Quarterly review: FY14Q2
Each quarter I do a quick roundup of the book and film reviews that I do on Goodreads and Letterboxd. These reviews are too short and too off-the-cuff to be included with the more indepth reviews I do on this site. Below are the highlights of the quarter. Books Although I am still a few…
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Quarterly review: FY14Q1
Each quarter I do a quick roundup of the book and film reviews that I do on Goodreads and Letterboxd. These reviews are too short and too off-the-cuff to be included with the more indepth reviews I do on this site. Below are the highlights of the quarter. Books As for books, so far I…
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The death of the internet — A review of To Save Everything, Click Here
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov Truthfully, I stayed away from this book. The overwhelming opinion of the popular tech press is that Evgeny Morozov writes like an asshole with an axe to grind. I found his first book The Net Delusion frustrating (but certainly worth it) and…
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The best of 2013
See last year’s roundup. Besides work and family, I get enjoyment out of books and film. In terms of books, this year was a pretty serious one for me. I was able to acheive my Goodreads goal (again). It says 50, but if you minus off the graphic novels, coursework and essays it is more…
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Quarterly review: FY13Q4
Below are links to all the off-the-cuff reviews of books and film from this quarter. I didn’t add to my list of more in depth reviews. Reviews from Goodreads (2013) ★★★★☆ Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking ★★★☆☆ Writing on the Wall ★★★★★ To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found…
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Cited — A review of Consent of the Networked
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon I have owned this book for more than a year, and now that I have finally read it I have to say it was pretty boring. Wait! I am not saying it is a bad book, not by any means! Overall it…
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Tour of Duty — A review of Black Code
Black Code: The Battle for the Future of Cyberspace by Ronald J. Deibert Ron Deibert’s book title should probably have the word “tour” in it somewhere, as that is the primary purpose of this book. He covers a whole variety of topics surrounding the fragile nature of the world wide web as we know it.…