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Dec 30, 2017

My 10 Favorite Books of 2017

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Hardcover, Masha Gessen

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Nov 19, 2017

TL;DR: Be Inclusive

A Review of “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty” by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson

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Jan 25, 2017

Reading List 2017

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, Antonio Garcia Martinez

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Jan 1, 2017

I, Hillbilly

A Review of Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance

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Nov 9, 2016

Interesting Old Books

The Big Sort, Bill Bishop

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Oct 24, 2016

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon

Robert Gordon’s recent work, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War, published in January…

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon

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Oct 22, 2016

Thoughts on 10/21/16 DDOS

Yesterday’s large scale DDOS attack on the United States’ internet infrastructure will undoubtedly go down as an important milestone in the…

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Aug 28, 2016

Personal Reading List: 2016

Here are the books I’ve been reading (or listening to) so far this year. I hope to write at least a quick paragraph in review of each of…

Brian Jackson

Brian Jackson

Architect w/Microsoft, former Army officer. Interests include technology, economics, science, philosophy, and “big issues” facing society in general.

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