Blog, Page 79

I’m a bit torn on this book. On the one hand, it’s a wonderful collection of wisdom from many years in the software industry, backed with lots of sources, studies...

Today, I’m happy to announce that Terraform: Up & Running has been published!

An important, remarkable story, poorly told. Before reading this, I knew very little of the role of women, and especially black women, in the space race. The res...

I read this book after having seen Simon Sinek’s TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action. It turns out, the TED talk is r...

In the last few years, I’ve sold all my possessions; lived in three different countries and traveled through a half dozen others; took a year off as a “mini retir...

What a fun read. It’s like Groundhog Day, but instead of repeating a single day over and over again, Harry August repeats his entire life over and over again. The...

This is one of the best books I’ve read on product design and development. Actually, it’s less of a book and more of a slideshow, with tons of stock photos, diagr...

A nice history of some of the key players in the history of modern computing. On the plus side, the book correctly credits most major technological progress not t...

This book is a good overview of basic marketing principles, but the so-called “immutable laws” are neither laws nor immutable. They are, at best, rules of thumb t...

The prose and characters are decent, but not much happens in the plot, and the twist ending is fairly predictable. It’s an OK story, but nothing special, so I’m n...