The Reading Room

Each month a member of the team reviews a book of their choosing, irrelevant of genre or publishing date.

Chip War – The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

Published: 2022, Simon & Schuster

Power in the modern world – military, economic, geopolitical – is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled.  Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalising the chip industry...

Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Charles T. Munger

Published: 2023, Stripe Press

From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin, the Founding Father of the United States of America, dispensed useful and timeless advice through his book Poor Richard’s Almanack (“Poor Richard” being the pseudonym adopted by Benjamin Franklin for this purpose). Among the virtues extolled were thrift, duty, hard work, and simplicity. Then some two and fifty hundred years later Charlie Munger stepped...

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

Published: 2019, Transworld Publishers

Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history.