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Books: Better Off

A couple of quotes from the book “Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology” that I thought were important enough to note here:
… tricks like these remove much of the onus from manual labor and add to the sense of physical effort a much finer satisfaction: the magisterial feeling that comes with wielding means precisely [...]


Books, the last 12 months

It’s been almost exactly a year since I last pointed to my reading list, turns out I’ve read about 30 books in the last 12 months, highlighted by seven in the month of July (mom-in-law got me a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble for my birthday so I splurged and then read them all [...]


Book Review: Crossing the Chasm

Book Review: Crossing the Chasm
I don’t remember how Crossing the Chasm got onto my reading list (maybe the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program Reading List?) but I finally got around to reading it over the last couple weeks. One sentence review: It’s a great book for developers and product managers working at small [...]


October Books

I finished a couple good books this month, all of which I’d recommend:
· How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
· Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
· Status Anxiety
· The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
My yearly tally is over here.


Links: 11-23-2005

Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program - Joel on Software
Great list of books to read over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend…err… maybe the next 12 Thanksgiving holiday weekends. (categories: books software toread )


Book Review: The High Price of Materialism

A couple of weeks ago I saw a book in the semi-weekly newsletter that I get from MIT Press called “The High Price of Materialism” (buy on MIT Press, Amazon) (oops, now that I look I actually added it to my Amazon.com wishlist back in June) Anyway, I finished it tonight and wanted to [...]


Hibernate: A Developer’s Notebook

Oreilly is publishing a book on Hibernate, to be released in May. Nice.


Mind Wide Open coming to Cambridge this Thursday

If you’re a fan of Steven Berlin Johnson, he’s giving a talk at the Harvard Bookstore this coming Thursday, February 26th at 6pm. Further details are available on the Harvard Bookstore site.


Can a Developing Nation Be Creative?

Nicholas Negroponte asks the above question in one of the articles from the latest issue of ITID [abstract] [full source]. From what I gather, he posits that for developing nations to be successful, they require “.. discipline, team playing, and efficiencies that come from standardized,controlled, preplanned, and highly regulated environments” but that same discipline and [...]


Information Technologies and International Development Journal

At the bottom of the latest MIT Press newsletter was the introduction of a new journal called “Information Technologies and International Development” or ITID for short. It’s focus is:
“… on the intersection of information and communication technologies with international development. Readers from academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government interested in the “other four billion”—the [...]


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