My hopes and dreams when I tucked into “Going Infinite,” Michael Lewis’ controversial book about Sam Bankman-Fried, were the same as they always are when reading our foremost chronicler of financial renegades and miscreants.First, I wanted to be entertained by Lewis’ honeyed prose and syrupy storytelling—the snappy character descriptions, the laugh-out-loud asides, the crystalline explanations of complicated subjects. Second, I wanted Lewis—who demystified bond trading in “Liar’s Poker,” collateral debt obligations in “The Big Short” and the net worth of baseball players in “Moneyball”—to...…My hopes and dreams when I tucked into “Going Infinite,” Michael Lewis’ controversial book about Sam Bankman-Fried, were the same as they always are when reading our foremost chronicler of financial renegades and miscreants.First, I wanted to be entertained by Lewis’ honeyed prose and syrupy storytelling—the snappy character descriptions, the laugh-out-loud asides, the crystalline explanations of complicated subjects. Second, I wanted Lewis—who demystified bond trading in “Liar’s Poker,” collateral debt obligations in “The Big Short” and the net worth of baseball players in “Moneyball”—to...WW…

·May 5, 2020, 1:03 PM UTCThis is the web version of Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, .A pandemic has a way of making urgent topics less urgent. That in turn gives cover to entrepreneurs to work stealthily and somewhat less frantically on their products.Autonomous driving an example. The field has gone in recent years from tomorrow to right around the corner to some time in the future to maybe one day.I spoke last week to Dan Ammann, the former president who now runs Cruise, the majority-GM-owned self-driving car...…·May 5, 2020, 1:03 PM UTCThis is the web version of Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, .A pandemic has a way of making urgent topics less urgent. That in turn gives cover to entrepreneurs to work stealthily and somewhat less frantically on their products.Autonomous driving an example. The field has gone in recent years from tomorrow to right around the corner to some time in the future to maybe one day.I spoke last week to Dan Ammann, the former president who now runs Cruise, the majority-GM-owned self-driving car...WW…