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Tracking email opens

posted: February 13, 2025

tl;dr: A peak under the hood of email opens...

Book review: When the Spirits Move: A Native American Creation Story, by Donald L. Ensenbach

posted: February 2, 2025

tl;dr: Definitely not a history, but rather a collection of stories about early Native American tribes and migrations...

Book review: The Best American Essays 2023, ed. by Vivian Gornick

posted: January 24, 2025

tl;dr: A decent collection with a noteworthy forward by longtime series editor Robert Atwan...

Book review: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes

posted: January 16, 2025

tl;dr: Did FDR’s policies prolong the Great Depression?...

Book review: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance

posted: January 11, 2025

tl;dr: A first person account of the lives of the working poor, from a survivor of domestic turbulence...

Book review: The Best American Short Stories 2023, ed. by Min Jin Lee

posted: January 5, 2025

tl;dr: One of the best collections in the twenty-five years I’ve been reading this series...

Book review: Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, by Peter Schweizer

posted: December 29, 2024

tl;dr: A detailed look at how China spends some of the money we give them for their goods...

The key problem

posted: December 8, 2024

tl;dr: A security system is only as secure as the keys that give access to it...

The fallout from the Great Bitcoin Hack

posted: November 25, 2024

tl;dr: A wrinkle in the fabric of spacetime landed this article in my inbox...

Attention China: How to destroy the U.S.A.’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

posted: November 23, 2024

tl;dr: China definitely has the resources and expertise to attack the Bitcoin network...