“The way Theranos is operating is like trying to build a bus while you’re driving the bus. Someone is going to get killed.”
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
21 Lessons for the 21 Century
“To run fast, don’t take much luggage with you. Leave all your illusions behind. They are very heavy.”— Yuval Noah Harari
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
"Was Hitler mad?""Corollary questions are: Were Nazi leaders mentally ill? Was the German nation, as a whole, deranged?" ― S. Nassir Ghaemi
The 48 Laws of Power
“Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“Death. It doesn’t have to be boring.”― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Rwandan genocide did not involve tanks, airplanes, dropping bombs or shelling at civilians. There were no concentration camps. No transport trains. No Zyklon-B. There was no bureaucratic banality of evil. There were hardly even many guns.
The Sunday Post #11: Take Me Back to the Madding Crowd
Hi guys, how's your week been? I read... Brave New Girl by Rachel Vincent: Blurb: Dahlia 16 sees her face in every crowd. She’s nothing special—just one of five thousand girls created from a single genome to work for the greater good of the city. Meeting Trigger 17 changes everything. (.... )When Dahlia can’t stop thinking... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Favorite Non-Fiction of 2017
As always, Top Ten Tuesday meme is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is:Top Ten Favorite Books of 2017. I'm twisting this topic a little bit to best nonfiction I read this year because I don't review enough of it...and these lists are only way to give out some recognition to these... Continue Reading →
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.” ― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in... Continue Reading →