Previously: Sadly, FTX.
Review: Michael Lewis's Going Infinite
If Sam Bankman-Fried is convicted in the upcoming FTX fraud trial, Lewis’s admiring biography will take an awkward place on the shelves of history.
How Michael Lewis’s Book on Sam Bankman-Fried Went Off the Rails
The CEO of FTX was the worst possible subject for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Interesting Triad and an incredibly Complex Book
Book Review
25 books that will blow your mind
Some books stick with you long after you've finished reading them. Here are the books you should read in your lifetime.
You can just read 25 books (a16z Infra edition)
Essential Sci-Fi recommendations, plus some fantasy and non-fiction
Infinite scrolling
Infinite scrolling, also known as endless scrolling, is an approach to web design where new material is continually dynamically added to the bottom of the page as the user scrolls downward, leading to the apparent ability to scroll forever. This is in contrast to pagination, where material is divided into discrete pages.
BookHive | sci-fi spec fic book club ideas
sci-fi spec fic book club ideas — a book shelf by @awarm.space on BookHive
Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of academic writing I reviewed. But I can’t keep that promise with Tore Olsson’s Red Dead’s History . I
Geoff Shullenberger on Twitter / X
Günther Anders's "The Obsolescence of the Human," which was finally translated into English last year, is one of the books I most often recommend these days. Robert Bellafiore has written a lucid introduction to Anders's ever more relevant thought: https://t.co/MWiwSMeq6u— Geoff Shullenberger (@g_shullenberger) September 10, 2026
Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp | Penguin Random House Canada
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CONVERSATION AND KIRKUS • A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB'S MUST-READ BOOK • SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A radical retelling of human history through the cycle of societal collapse—"a Cassandra-like warning about the path today’s oligarchs have set [and] a sweeping and dire vision of a world on the brink.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) “Deeply sobering and strangely inspiring. . . . Read it now, or your descendants will find it in the ruins.” —Johann Hari, author of Stolen Focus “Anyone who doubts the importance of this conversation hasn’t been paying attention.” —Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
Readwise Books: Step Three of Our Master Plan
Readwise Books is an indie ebook store & app — a cross between Kindle and Goodreads — that tracks your reading like Strava.
Interactive Fiction Study Course
An online, self-paced course exploring notable works of interactive fiction. The goal is not to just consume classics but to take them apart to build up your own craft repertoire.
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simon…
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