Books

Going Infinite

A strange and revealing portrait of ambition, rationalization, and collapse in one of the most chaotic stories in modern finance.

Michael Lewis writes the FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried story with unusual proximity, which makes the book fascinating and faintly eerie at the same time. It reads like access carrying its own warning label.

What stayed with me

What stayed was the danger of narrative insulation. The book shows how intelligence and elite confidence can become part of the problem when they reduce scrutiny instead of increasing it.

What it changed

It changed how I think about modern financial storytelling. I became even more suspicious of environments where complexity is used as status rather than explanation. When the language gets too frictionless, caution usually has a job to do.

Why I still keep it on the shelf

I still think about this book because it documents a culture that kept rewarding confidence while governance lagged behind. That mismatch is not unique to crypto, which is exactly why the story matters.