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