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Did not expect to love a book about economics and baseball but here we are

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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I know far more about baseball than someone with my level of interest (mild) should. I have favourite players (Mookie Betts and Corey Seager), a lot of thoughts on player hair and facial hair (Cody Bellinger’s haircut, Seager’s unfortunate ‘goatee’) and I even know the team’s GM (Dave Roberts). In short: I live with a baseball fanatic (Dodgers fan, obviously) and have essentially absorbed these things, osmosis style from the many, many games that play in the background to my daily life during baseball season […]

Money Never Sleeps

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

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What’s incredible about Michael Lewis’ Liar’s Poker is just how funny it is. You want to be mad at all of these people for ruining the world, but they’re so ridiculous, you often can’t help but laugh. I’m more than familiar with Lewis’ work. Moneyball is one of my all-time favorite novels. The Big Short had me real angry. Lewis is one of the great journalists of my time. This was the book that kick started his career. And he didn’t need long to discover his writing voice. Alternating between his time as […]

Nonfiction Shorts II

The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis

The Battle for Paradise by Naomi Klein

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

Playing to Win by Michael Lewis

You are Ready for Takeoff by Susan Orlean

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The Coming Storm – Michael Lewis – 4/5 Stars This is a short essay/exploration of the topic of weather, the national government, and the use of data. Michael Lewis begins with the idea of how the government collects and stores data, and by this I mostly mean the kinds of data employed in government policies, administration, and the like. The easiest way to explain this in a broad way is to look at how little data was used in the prediction of weather until after […]

The risks and rewards of a life spent in public service

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

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On the surface, Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk is a book about the failures of the Trump administration.  This is why I resisted reading it for a long time, even after it was recommended to me, and even though I like Michael Lewis’s writing in general (I am setting aside the satirical(?) essay in which he gave pointers to men on how to get your wife to give up her high-status career so that she would have more time to pay attention to you, that […]

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

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Cannonball Bingo: Money! (And my first bingo!) I’ve had a fun time figuring out what books fit for what squares in Cannonball Bingo, but I didn’t know what to read for “Money!” Although I’m a fan of having money, and I’d definitely like enough that I don’t have to work and can travel all over the world, the topic doesn’t hold my interest. So, I went on a Google search to find a good book on a topic that I often find tedious. And I […]

The first thing they always did was run you.

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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This book follows Billy Beane, the general manager (money guy, deals, trade, etc) of the Oakland Athletics through a season in the early 2000s as he’s three years in a new approach to baseball using statistical analysis (termed sabremetrics) to have a successful baseball season. Rather than a focus on traditional baseball values and certainly rather than trying to win specific games in micro ways, Beane employed a system of maximizing the benefit of certain parts of baseball, to win as many games over the […]



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