Note to Self: The Two Best Books I Read in 2018:John Ca...

Note to Self: The Two Best Books I Read in 2018:

John Carreyrou: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1524731668: John Carreyou broke the Theranos fraud story and here tells it magnificently. It is a grift of others���and a self-grift by the Theranos principals���of almost unbelievable magnitude. The only way to understand the investors and principals is, in the words of one Silicon Valley observer: ���they had seen too many of their once-peers and now-superiors get rich by doing stupid things that they thought being stupid was a viable business model���...

Adam Tooze: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0525558802: The field of the finance and economics of the past decade���s disasters has been well plowed by authors Like Barry Eichengreen, Martin Wolf, and Gary Gorton. The brilliant Adam Tooze, however, is the first I am aware of to successfully and magisterially broaden the scope, and do a satisfactory job on the political economy and the politics as well...

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