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By Karine Kleb
Upcoming book from Karine Kleb, this wonderful person, going beyond a simple introduction to yoga. A personal playbook to think about the year ahead, consider the specificities of the seasons and their respective rhythm, and help us exercise and find our balance accordingly.
And if you don’t yet speak 🇫🇷, the perfect occasion to learn !
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Author: Dan Lyons
“Disrupted - Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Startup Bubble” is an entertaining real-life “psychology experiment” (in the terms of its main character). In this funny and often cynical book, Dan Lyons allows us to share the couple of years of his life spent working for a typical Silicon Valley tech startup (HubSpot). So far, nothing earth shattering, right ? The thing is that Dan Lyons had never worked in a startup before: he had just spent more than 25 years as a journalist writing for Forbes and Newsweek. The other thing is that Dan was more than 50 years old (with lots of grey hair) when he joined the startup which has a mid-twenties average employee age ! The book depicts the culture shock Dan went through, but also some of the most questionable cultural traits of a Silicon Valley startup today. Let’s just say that it didn’t end well at many levels: including for 2 of Dan’s former managers at the startup who got fired for having tried to prevent the publication of the movie - and were investigated by the FBI for some of the not-totally-kosher-means they used to do so (i.e. hacking and extortion).
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Bruce Barnbaum
“The Art of Photography” is a reference bible in the world of photography enthusiasts. The book strikes the perfect and difficult balance between the introduction of key technical concepts and techniques, and very practical examples and considerations helping making “proper” photography more accessible. This is further helped by Bruce Barnbaum, an accomplished photographer, using his real life situations as illustrations along the way. Said differently, probably one of the only “technical” photography books which can be read on the beach. Almost.
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Russell Miller
“Magnum - Fifty Years at the Front Line of History”
Through the biography of the legendary Magnum photography agency, Miller also tells 3 other stories. That of the individuals who founded the agency (Robert Capa, David Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson), each a legend in their own right. That of the world in this half century scarred by wars around the globe. Wars which, for first the very first time, were rendered more real by the photographs brought back by those intrepid legends. And that of Leica, who’s technological innovation at the time made this unique witnessing possible.
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Author: John Carreyrou
Written by a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Bad Blood is the best thriller that you have read in years. The real life story of rise and collapse of Elizabeth Holmes’ startup, Theranos. With what you would expect from a thriller: brilliance, intelligence and blatant lies and deception. Inspiring !
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Author: Ernest Cline
Supposedly a science fiction book, Ready Player One is actually not about tomorrow, but about today. Ernest Cline has a very sharp analysis of some of the biases of our modern technology driven life, with social media at its core. Also, Cline juggles with time, delighting us with references to the 80s embedded in this futuristic and realistic tale.
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Author: William Finnegan
This autobiography is a pleasure to read, even for those of us not into surfing. Following William on his life journey around the world, chasing waves and finding himself, is as engaging as any fiction we come across these days. In addition to being a precise description of the American culture in the 60s and 70s, Barbarian Days is also a fantastic introduction to the surfing way of life. Simply, honestly.
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