Recommendations you can check.
by Steven Johnson, 2020
Who uses, recommends or left Enemy Of All Mankind, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people
is both a great story and also an object lesson in how single event can have a compounding effect on global politics and economics
The book his firm's book club read that month, by a friend and former USV portfolio founder.
2020-06-16·avc.com ↗
The other book of mine that makes a thoughtful gift for the history buff in your extended clan is my 2020 book, Enemy of All Mankind
Holiday gift-guide post listing the books he spent the most time thinking about in 2021. His own book, as the quote states.
2021-11-23·adjacentpossible.substack.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.