Cool Books I read in 2017
It was well short of my personal goal of 50 books…but I cannot complain. I read some really good ones in 2017.
- Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us, by Kabir Sehgal (4/5)
- The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business, by Eric Schmidt (3/5)
- Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, by Daniel Altman (3/5)
- Elon Musk: Inventing the Future, by Ashlee Vance (2/5)
- Roger Federer: The Greatest, by Chris Bowers (2/5)
- The Internet of Money, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (5/5)
- Mastering Bitcoin, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4/5)
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Brian Christian (4/5)
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone (2/5)
- The Bankers’ New Clothes - What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, by Anat Admati (3/5)
- The Industries of the Future, by Alec J. Ross (4/5)
- Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity, by James D. Gwartney (3/5)
- Hit Refresh, by Satya Nadella (3/5)
- The Last King of Scotland, by Giles Foden (3/5)
- Frugal Innovation: How to do more with less, by Navi Radjou (4/5)
- The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World’s First Decentralized Cryptocurrency, by Ian DeMartino (3/5)
- Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America, by Andrew Yang (3/5)
- What You’re Really Meant to Do, by Robert S. Kaplan (4/5)
- The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World, by Brad Stone (4/5)
- The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology, by William Mougayar (4/5)
- VALUEWEB: How fintech firms are using bitcoin blockchain and mobile technologies to create the Internet of value, by Chris Skinner (3/5)
- Wildcat Currency: How the Virtual Money Revolution Is Transforming the Economy, by Edward Castronova (3/5)
- The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers, and the Coming Cashless Society, by David Wolman (3/5)
- The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order, by Paul Vigna (4/5)
- Breaking Banks: The Innovators, Rogues, and Strategists Rebooting Banking, by Brett King (3/5)