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Now reading: Technology Strategy Patterns
Now reading Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt. A very interesting read so far, I was pleasantly surprised at the use of philosophical and logical tools to clarify one’s ideas. As the name suggests, E Hewitt provides a number of patterns that can help define, create and communicate goals in general, not just technology strategy ones.
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Now Reading: Make Something Wonderful
Now Reading: Make Something Wonderful Steve Jobs in his own words.
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Now Reading: Moby Dick
Now reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville. It is famously a novel that is largely “unread” and although that is—psychologically speaking—a difficult hurdle to overcome I started… one page at a time. As starts go, it was all good… and suddenly I got to some of the descriptions Ishmael makes of his first encounters with Queequeg and I had the filling the novel was more subversive than I had imagined. I had to pause…
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Now Reading: The Phoenix Project
I am now reading The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. I read some of the appraisal by some people such as Tim O’Reilly and Jim White-Hurst and I felt like I had to give it a go. I am reading what seems to be the newly updated and expanded editon of the book. The book follows the “adventures” of Bill, an IT manager who has been tasked with taking…
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Borrowing books
I am sure we all have been there… you lend a book to someone and you never hear from them again… Well actually from the book…. Sometimes you may not even remember who borrowed the book. This is happening fewer times to me with e-books, but still it is such a common annoying thing that in past time a curse may have been a good deterrent for those borrowers. A good example is the…
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Now Reading: Don Quixote
Now reading: El ingenioso Hildago Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. I think it is one of those books that the world knows well, but I never really read. You know some of the main scenes and even the first line of the book, but maybe many of us have never actually read it. I remember trying to read it year ago in my childhood, but was put off by…
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Now Reading: How to Speak Machine
Now Reading: How to Speak Machine by John Maeda. I was drawn to the book by the appeal of combining computation with design. With computers ever becoming more powerful, it is important not only to understand how computation works, but also how to harness that power towards positive benefits. The book has in mind product designers, business leaders and beyond.