Ryan Jacobs

Chris Anderson has written a book that took an interesting idea and then beat the heck out of it. That said, there was enough incremental information over the original Wired article about the book to make it worth a read.
I rather enjoyed the portion of the book devoted to the relatively recent historical events that [...]

August 25, 2007 I finished the book today and am giving it the 4 star rating above. I really liked how each chapter explained a particular myth and explored the causes of it. In some chapters, there was more practical advice for dealing with the myth, while in others you are sort of left to [...]

After reading The Devil in the White City, I thought that I would read another book by Erik Larson that sounded like it had similar qualities. Thunderstruck is the two stories of Marconi and his quest to deliver wireless communication with a murder mystery that ultimately is foiled in part because of Marconi’s invention.
While the [...]