Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

Category: Books

  • Plea to Amazon… please allow different default payment methods for Kindle purchases… PLEASE

    Plea to Amazon… please allow different default payment methods for Kindle purchases… PLEASE

    Someone tell me, in this day and age, with Amazon running a great deal of the Internet and Web and being one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world, why I can’t have one default payment method for my Kindle purchases and a different default payment method for my regular Amazon purchases? WHY?!? I…

  • I love and miss the city that was

    I love and miss the city that was

    I just finished the book, “City of Big Shoulders – A History of Chicago”, this afternoon. The book was published over 20 years ago and it made me nostalgic for the city I grew up in and the people who lived there. I moved out when I was 19 but the city that was never…

  • The relevance and prescience of “Free to Choose”

    I just finished Milton Friedman’s book “Free to Choose”. This book was published back in 1979 when the country went through one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression (Seems to keep happening doesn’t it?). Comically Friedman had the opinion that socialism had been adequately relegated as a failed ideology but what he failed…

  • Back to reading books

    It’s been quite some time since I finished a book. The last couple of years had me traveling and doing other work that kept me super busy. I kept reading during those times but it was really hit or miss and a tough slog. Since I decided to leave the family business I surprisingly still…