Going Infinite

Lewis is the best non-fiction storyteller of his generation — Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short — and he had inside access to SBF through the FTX collapse. The result is the most readable account of the largest fraud of the 21st century, told from inside the building while it was burning. The book is controversial. Critics argue Lewis was too sympathetic to his subject, that he soft-pedaled the fraud, that he was conned. Read it anyway — the prose is electric, the access is unmatched, and the portrait of a young man who genuinely couldn't tell the difference between effective altruism and stealing customer funds will stay with you. Four worms. Pair with Number Go Up for balance.