Moore is famous for the law that bears his name: namely, that the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a microchip doubles every 2 years. The “law” originated from Moore’s insatiable love of data, his tendency to take copious notes, his reflective, analytical thinking and his affinity for…
Month: January 2023
Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State by David Patrikarakos
The interesting thing was how it genuinely started from nuclear energy.
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Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
One can seethe with rage reading this book.
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
This is a book about some of the most competitive people in science. It’s a joint biography of Jennifer Doudna (who in 2020 won the Nobel prize together with Emanuelle Charpentier) and the CRISPR method for gene editing. The former is significantly less interesting than the latter. Isaacson does his…
The Expendables by Jeff Rubin
This book remarkably made me wonder if Trump may have had a point on some issues relating to trade.
How to avoid a climate disaster by Bill Gates
The book is not high literature and contains no poetry or rhapsody on the beauty of earth or nature. It is a good practical survey of the climate change problem, paired with an array of plausible technology solutions, very much written by an engineer. I liked the way Gates methodically…