Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Bad Blood was a great one, though one that makes you feel like there's a deep rot at the heart of the American elite. I haven't read that Keefe book but I really enjoyed The Snakehead.

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. You will be in for a ride.

Here is my list (from https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/912138-alex-givant?rea...): Memoirs: - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Bourdain, Anthony, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidenti... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidenti..). - Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Land, Stephanie, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39218350-maid - Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Bourdain, Anthony, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40409969-medium-raw - Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS by Yancey, Rick, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196519.Confessions_of_a_... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196519.Confessions_of_a_..). - The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir by Steffanie Strathdee, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36589701-the-perfect-pre... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36589701-the-perfect-predator) Politics:…

These are a few of the ones I read this year and that the average HN reader would also probably enjoy (links are to my blog): * Why We Sleep: https://j11g.com/2019/05/31/why-we-sleep-matthew-walker/ * The Effective Executive: https://j11g.com/2019/03/18/the-effective-executive-peter-dr... (https://j11g.com/2019/03/18/the-effective-executive-peter-drucker/) * High Output Management: https://j11g.com/2019/01/29/high-output-management-andrew-s-... (https://j11g.com/2019/01/29/high-output-management-andrew-s-grove/) * Bad Blood: https://j11g.com/2019/01/21/bad-blood-john-carreyrou/ * The 7 Habits (I reread this after a long time and it still holds up!) https://j11g.com/2019/09/30/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective... (https://j11g.com/2019/09/30/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-stephen-covey/) * A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace (This is just an amazing book and became one of my all time favorites) https://j11g.com/2019/08/08/a-supposedly-fun-thing-ill-never... (https://j11g.com/2019/08/08/a-supposedly-fun-thing-ill-never-do-again-david-foster-wallace/)

Not from 2019, but "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou, detailing the Theranos scandal. A truly spellbinding work of investigative journalism.

Bad blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood:_Secrets_and_Lies_in... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood:_Secrets_and_Lies_in_a_Silicon_Valley_Startup)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou The ride to the top and then rock bottom for Theranos is a wild one, and the author does a great job of not letting you put this book down once you start.

released this year and great reads: * Bad Blood - mentioned tons of times * Billion Dollar Whale - story of the 1MDB scandal * Black Edge - chronicles insider trading on wall street * The Billionaire Raj - about India's income inequality and ruling oligarchy

* Bad Blood - John Carreyou This has been listed multiple times. Depicts the darkside of the startup phenomena * Chasing New Horizons - Alan Stern, David Grinspoon Documents the people and machine that explored Pluto * Sunburst and Luminary - Don Eyles History of the Apollo guidance computer software from the man who wrote it

1) Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor Everything from the tulip craze to the dotcom boom. 2) If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? by Alan Alda Alan Alda of MASH fame teaches you how to build more empathy and improve your communication skills. 3) Bad Blood by James Carreyou Theranos. Enough said. 4) Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll I think of this as the last book in Coll's unofficial trilogy on Afghanistan. First up was Ghost Wars, a history of American involvement in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion up to 2001. Second is his biography on the Bin Laden family. Last year he released Directorate S, a chronicle of American and Pakistani involvement post-9/11 primarily told through the lens of the Pakistani intelligence directorate tasked with influencing Afghanistan. Coll has interviews with everyone from in-country CIA agents and foot soldiers who were on the ground all the way up to defense secretaries and military leaders, from both sides. An in-depth examination of what went wrong and why we're still stuck there.…