Create Your Own Economy
The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World

This book is proof that you cannot judge a book by its title. I thought that, since the book's title contains the word, "economy" and since the author is a behavioral economist, that the book would be about economics, and about the economic decisions that people make. How wrong could I be! This book......more

This book should be titled "Why Asperger's Syndrome is an apt analogy for how to cope with the digital economy." It has a LOT of material about Asperger's designed to correct people's preconceived stereotypes that Asperger's is necessarily a bad thing. AS has good sides, and those good sides provide......more

This is an extremely difficult book to summarize. If I had to sum it up: the Internet is making us more autistic, and that’s a good thing. Autistics are relatively good at ordering information. Information technology is helping us all do this – our Google Readers order the blogosphere for us, our Fa......more

This book hasn’t aged terribly well. Written as social media was ramping up its dominance in our personal lives and in the news, and as a mass migration to the internet was taking place as a source of information, Tyler doesn’t really have much novel to offer in this book. He starts off, perhaps stra......more