Books
History, finance, journalism, whatever else — with an honest rating, not just a recommendation.
Ryszard Kapuściński
Dispatches from post-colonial Africa. Kapuściński writes like a novelist but it's all real. The detail on how power actually moves through a place — not the official version — is the whole point.
July 2026Mike Duncan
The Republic's slow collapse before Caesar. What's interesting isn't who broke it — it's the decade when the norms stopped holding and everyone could see it but nobody acted.
June 2026Gregory Zuckerman
Simons and Renaissance. The actual story is less romantic than the myth — it's about data infrastructure and hiring mathematicians, not about a genius insight. More instructive that way.
May 2026