Joshuah Bearman, Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief, Wired, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link

• The true story of a multi-billion dollar art heist and how they got away with it.

C. J. Chivers, How the AK-47 Rewrote the Rules of Modern Warfare, Wired, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link

• From its unheralded beginning, the Soviet Union’s modest little gun, dubbed the Avtomat Kalashnikova-47, would become one of the most recognizable artifacts of the 20th century.

Jared Diamond, HOW TO GET RICH, Edge, 1999

Rating: 4/5 Link

• Overall principles of how to organize a business and get rich.
• Really isolated groups are at a disadvantage, because most groups get most of their ideas and innovations from the outside.
• You don't want excessive unity and you don't want excessive fragmentation; instead, you want your human society or business to be broken up into a number of groups which compete with each other but which also maintain relatively free communication with each other.