Important and pressing thesis, but pushed too far at times, particularly in the second half of the book where there it relied too much on the firm's apparent proximity to events or the fact that certain persons were alumni of the firm to invite the reader to draw disparaging inferences not clearly supported by any evidence
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jaslynlek reviewed Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most …
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Huey wants to read AI Con by Alex Hanna
AI Con by Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this …
Huey wants to read Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of …
Huey wants to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, …
Huey started reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
One reason the best in the world make consistently good decisions is they rarely find themselves forced into a decision …
Huey wants to read Machine Readable Me by Zara Rahman
Machine Readable Me by Zara Rahman
As we go about our day-to-day lives, digital information about who we are is gathered from all angles via biometric …
Huey wants to read The Price of Zero by Donald Low
Huey finished reading Listeners by Brian Hochman
Listeners by Brian Hochman
They’ve been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals how—and why.
Wiretapping is nearly as old as …
Huey rated When McKinsey Comes to Town: 4 stars
When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major …
Huey wants to read A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer, Carl Zimmer, Ian Schoenherr
In 2020, an invisible germ—a virus—wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or …
Huey finished reading When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich
McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of …
Huey wants to read Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification (2025, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of digital platforms over time and what to do about it.
Cory Doctorow's Enshittification …
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval Noah Harari
The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of …
Huey wants to read Nexus (Nexus, #1) by Ramez Naam
Nexus (Nexus, #1) by Ramez Naam
The Nexus Trilogy is a postcyberpunk thriller novel trilogy written by American author Ramez Naam and published between 2012-2015. The …