Lewis is a masterful story teller, and I find the topics he picks to be fascinating
His tendency to lionize his characters feels problematic at times. In the big short you had Steve Eisman, in Flash Boys you have Brad Katsuyama. The portrait painted is of David v. Goliath
The HFT programmer, Sergey Alynikov, is a disturbing tale of an ex-Goldman Sach’s employee who was prosecuted twice for copy Goldman’s code shortly before resigning
I find the idea of deleting your bash history to be suspicious and the offered reason strange (he wanted to clear out his passwords he entered into the CLI).
Perhaps my generation is more license conscious in the age of licenses being integrated directly into Github