The author of Post Corona, From Crisis to Opportunity, is Scott Galloway. He’s a professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, a serial entrepreneur, and a well-known blogger. The book begins with two theses. First, the pandemic’s most enduring impact will be as an accelerant. It will speed up many things that were […]
Archive | March, 2021
Book Review: Apollo’s Arrow
This book is by Nicholas A. Christakis, a physician and sociologist at Yale University. As we begin to see the end of the coronavirus pandemic, I’m reading books to try and gain insight as to what the future will look like. The book’s subtitle, The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We […]
Book Review: Pale Rider
The Spanish Flu of 1918 infected one of three people on Earth. But it is not reported on like the world wars of the 20th century, even though it may have killed more than the two wars combined. (WW1 killed 17 million, WW2 killed 60 million.) The Flu killed between 50 and 100 million people, […]
Book Review: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
This is a fascinating, albeit difficult to read book, subtitled, “Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library.” It is, in fact, a biography of Hernando Colon, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus. (Colon is the Spanish form of the name. Columbus is Latin. The Italian version is Columbo.) The […]