I liked that the essays were done by different authors. There were not 97 different authors. Many of the essays were done by the same author. But there were a lot of different voices sharing their opinion.
The main idea I got was that a data engineer takes data from different sources and gets it into tables. Then the data will be consumed by other people such as analysts or data scientists. There are a lot of tools involved.
I was able to follow some of the ideas. Some were general and more of a description of the right kind of attitude. The author says the ultimate routine is to trade stocks for a living. The author does talk about other famous and rich stock traders.
After a few months, the family was surprised that they wore out their welcome in Dallas. This was contrary to their belief that family should support family for years. But Tani's great uncle was married to an American. So the family went to New York City. There they got cramped homeless shelter housing. Tani's dad worked a tough job in a kitchen for cash under the table. Then he decided to rent a Camry and do Uber while he studied for a real estate license.
Tani discovered the chess club at school. They waived the monthly fee that his family could not afford. Tani was diligent in doing chess exercises. He had early success at tournaments. He surprised his chess coaches by pulling some Paul Morphy level gambits in his tournament play. His coaches thought he would fare better in some real housing. They had an article written about him coupled with a Go Fund Me. It bought in hundreds of thousands of dollars. The rest is history.
Louisa concocts a plan to have Ashley audition for a role. But Louisa uses the audio to fake her own death. Louisa has modified her will to leave everything to Ashley. When Ashley finds out that she was tricked, she is seething. Ashley recalls a prior script that matched Louisa's plan. So she figures out Louisa is hiding in a bunker under the house. Ashley makes sure the air duct to the bunker is blocked.
Louisa's children figure out their mom is down in the bunker. They go down to find their mom dead. Turns out Charlie, Louisa's oldest, is having problems with his wife. The wife thought all the money went to Louisa's children, so she plots to lock the kids and Louisa down in the bunker. The wife also plans to get all the inheritance and live instead with Charlie's cousin.
The first third of the book is about his early life and chess. The second part delves into his foray into the martial arts, specifically Tai Chi. I did not read past the first part of the book. I was only interested in his chess life.
The CEO is the narrator of the story. They had trouble getting funding in Dennmark. So they got an initial investment from a company in Boston. The 3 guys moved to Boston with their families to be close to their venture capitalist investor. That lasted for about a summer.
Later, the company had bigger follow on investments from venture capitalist firms in California. They moved to San Francisco to be close to those firms plus other startups. They eventually did an IPO and$9 a share. The share jumped up 50% on day 1, and quickly went up 100%.
Eventually people got wind of the sister's powers. They wanted to hunt her down and kill her. So she set off in search of her brother, who she heard was at the north pole. She took a boat but landed at the south pole instead. There she met some penguins who became her friends.
Eventually she builds another boat and goes in search of her brother. She does find him. But the town folk want to kill her because she is a witch. She reunites one more time with her brother briefly. Then she became mad. And she stomps her feet, causing the ice to crack and the penguins and her to fall deep into the water and freeze.
