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How Big Things Get Done

By Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (2023) Pages: 304, Final verdict: Great-read If I told you that your next project has a 99.5% chance of failing, would you still do it? Read How Big Things Get Done, and you will. After more than two decades researching why most projects... Read more

Economics Management

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

By J. Bradford DeLong (2022) Pages: 546, Final verdict: Should-read To most of us, the twentieth century feels both intimately familiar and immensely complex. Two world wars, the emergence and collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the CPC in China and multiple economic recessions. It doesn't seem like... Read more

Economics Finance History Politics

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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

By Jimmy Soni (2022) Pages: 496, Final verdict: Great-read PayPal's impact transcends the company. I heard this a few times before picking up Soni's latest book, and for good reason. Yes, Paypal is - at the time I'm writing this in May '23 - worth +$80B, and boasts almost 500... Read more

Business Entrepreneurship Management Technology

Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

By John Doerr (2021) Pages: 448, Final verdict: Should-read John Doerr is one of the most legendary venture capitalists in the world. A partner at Kleiner Perkins, he is most famous for leading the firm's investment in Amazon in 1995, and in Google in 1999. Doerr is also an advocate... Read more

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By Tim Marshall (2021) Pages: 360, Final verdict: Great-read If you've have ever asked me for a book recommendation, odds are that Prisoners of Geography was the one you got. In it - covered in this review - Tim Marshall does a remarkable jobs showing us how much, even today,... Read more

Geopolitics