The best tech writing of the week, June 3

We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: June 3, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (751 words)

The Most Dangerous Gamer

Like many wealthy people, Jonathan Blow vividly remembers the moment he became rich. At the time, in late 2008, he was $40,000 in debt and living in a modest San Francisco apartment, having just…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2632 words)

Form and Fortune

Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 627 pp., $35) In 2010, Der Spiegel published a glowing profile of Steve Jobs, then at the helm of Apple. Jobs’s products are venerated in…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1397 words)
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