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Some books inform you. Others unsettle you. The Anxious Generation does something quieter and heavier — it makes you look back. Not with regret exactly, but with the kind of awareness that comes only after something precious has already passed. I read this book out of curiosity — wanting to understand what phone-based, internet-based childhood […]

There is a certain kind of book that makes you pause—not because it is wrong, but because it is confident. Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind is one of those books. He writes with the certainty of someone who has spent a lifetime studying intelligence, convinced that the human mind is ultimately a system

We live in an age where fear and fascination walk side by side. Artificial intelligence — once a curiosity of science fiction — now sits at the heart of daily life, guiding, sorting, predicting, and, increasingly, deciding. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’s book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is a stark meditation on what

When you grow up outside America, you learn its story through a strange lens — part admiration, part myth. You’re told about liberty, invention, and the courage of explorers who “discovered” new worlds. What you don’t hear is the blood beneath those discoveries. Lies My Teacher Told Me shattered that lens for me — not

Every once in a while, a book finds you at the right intersection of curiosity and conviction. For me, that moment came after a recent National IT Conference, where talk of quantum computing moved from speculation to strategy. As someone who’s spent years exploring AI — its promises, its illusions, its limits — I’ve often

I picked up Mother Mary Comes to Me right after finishing Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, a book that opened my eyes to the countless ways women are made invisible in a male-dominated world. Reading Arundhati Roy right after that felt almost like a living example of what Perez described. Roy’s presence, her unapologetic

Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women is a deeply researched and eye-opening look into how the world has been designed — often unintentionally, but sometimes willfully — around men, leaving women disadvantaged in nearly every aspect of life. She calls it the “gender data gap,” and once you begin to see it, it’s impossible to unsee.

Here is another finished book: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Dr. Fei-Fei Li. I didn’t read it as a technical history of computer vision, but as the story of a person learning how to look—closely, patiently, and with empathy—until the world starts to reveal its patterns.

I recently finished reading A Promised Land by Barack Obama—not as a political play-by-play, but as a study in how change happens. I went in looking for a story; I came out with a meditation on patience, responsibility, and the quiet discipline of choosing the next right step. As a parent, an immigrant, and a

We talk a lot about immigrants in this country — their dreams, their struggles, their impact. But seldom do we confront the brutal truth of how this country came to be. Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen shatters the sanitized version of American history we’ve grown up with and does something rare: it centers the story