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The book gives a nice overview of the more famous hacks from North Korea's very own Lazarus Group (APT38) -- from attacks on Sony; the audacious attempt to steal $1 billion from Bangladesh Bank (they managed to get away with $81 million); the WannaCry ransomware; and the sprawling multitude of hacks targeting crypto-exchanges and users.

It also paints a picture of how deeply connected and complex North Korea's connections to the criminal underworld run -- even the idea that the majority of the Japanese Yakuza being originally ethnic Koreans.

A fantastic starting point to educate yourself on the use of deceptive or manipulative patterns (or "dark patterns").

Definitely give this a read! A very interesting look at the OneCoin fraud.

It's a good read on introducing concepts of the Austrian school of economics.

It's also entertaining to read the author's pure hatred for Marx, Keynes, or anything remotely related to government expenditure. Such as this hilarious passage:

"Karl Marx, a semiliterate German bum who never had a job that could support him. Marx lived off the support of rich benefactors in England as he pontificated about reengineering the world into a dystopia run by people incapable of supporting themselves through their own labor."

A fun read on the uses and benefits of nudges. The book has a good balance of theory and practical applications/real-world examples.

This book is fucking insane (in a good way)! You got to read it. It’s like something out of a video game. After reading the wild stories, it even makes the garbage Hollywood turns out look incredibly boring and lame.

The essay titled “Revenge of the Hackers” alone is a great read that lays out how Open Source branded and shifted away from Free Software.

Lots of great context and insights behind the power of the bazaar (open source) vs. the cathedral (closed source), even ~23 years after the revised edition of the book was written.

This is an incredibly well-researched and masterfully written book on the history of the Luddites and the first unscrupulous tech titans of the 19th century. Highly recommended read.