John Hagel’s favorite authors
John Hagel has a great list of his favorite authors.
Slashdot has a review of Martin Fowler’s book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Martin apparently has his own site, along w/ a site devoted to the book. He lives right here in the Bay State.
I worked with Stefan Mumaw back a couple years ago at BigMan Creative. He’s now at Brainyard, apparently busy writing books. “Redesigning Web Sites: Retooling for Changing Needs of Business”, available soon from amazon, leads with the story of the redesign of FAO Schwarz, which MINDSEYE (the company I work for) completed in August of [...]
I finished reading “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” today (a sunny and windy beautiful day in Boston btw) which Joel pointed to a couple months back. Like Joel, I’ll find it useful should I ever need to run a factory, it also struck a chord with me on some non-programming level, more business [...]
I finished Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web [amazon], [allconsuming], [official site] tonight. I don’t know how to review the book, the quality wasn’t at all like Emergence or The Future of Ideas, I guess it’s a different kind of book though, not as academic. Emergence reads like a [...]
Finished a couple books in the last couple weeks. First, this last Wednesday I read “The Clustered World : How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Are”, which seems to be a popular book amongst the blogosphere. The information in this book should be required reading for [...]
Finished “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence” by Ray Kurzweil a couple weeks ago. If you want a scary view of what the future holds, read this book. I’m not a great book reviewer, so just like all of my other book reviews, here are a couple quotes I thought [...]
Finished The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig a couple days ago. Reviews of this book are too numerous to count, one might say that they number like the sand on the seashore, so the following notes are more for my benefit than yours.
On politicians: “The vast majority are decent and extraordinarily hardworking people who [...]
Finished Fast Food Nation while driving from Phoenix to Mammoth Lakes. Ironically, we had Del Taco (even more ironically, I used to do work for BigMan Creative who did the Del Taco site) along the way. Fast Food Nation was a world view altering book: in one paragraph you learn (if you aren’t already convinced) [...]
Miscellaneous notes from the book “Bots: The Origin of New Species” by Andrew Leonard.
Definition of a bot: “.. a bot is a supposedly intelligent software program that is autonomous, is endowed with personality, and usually, but not always, performs a service.” (pg 14)
With that definition in mind, I thought that generally it was good read [...]
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