TweetThe industrial age challenged us to rethink the limits of the human body: Where does my body end and the tool begin? The digital age challenges us to rethink the limits of the human mind: What are the boundaries of my cognition? It’s tragically ironic that the tagline for Douglas Rushkoff’s book incorporates an Old [...]
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Program or Be Programmed
January 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Books, Non-fiction, Reading, Technology
Tags:choice·complexity·contemplation·fact·identity·openness·place·purpose·Rushkoff·scale·Social·time
(Re)Balancing atoms and bits
November 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Content management, Ideas, Life, Reading
TweetSeveral years ago, I blogged about how I winnowed atom-based content at that time. When I consider my increasingly digital life now, I smile at how out-dated that post seems. Maybe some day I’ll let go of my hardcopy altogether and go 100% digital. Almost two years after my winnowing (paper-based) content post, I briefly [...]
In Pursuit of Elegance
July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Ideas, Inspiration, Non-fiction, Reading
TweetLast month I read In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing and am finally posting my thoughts on this book by Matthew May. First of all, it’s a well-written book that applies its message to itself. I’m glad that I found it after my previous read, since it covers similar ground [...]
Subject To Change
June 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Non-fiction, Reading, Technology, UX
TweetI recently finished reading Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World, and I can recommend this book to anyone who wants, for example, to build software that resonates with its users. Here are a list of thoughts and quotes this read produced: Empathy is an understanding of a person or [...]
Simplexity
January 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Non-fiction
TweetAfter reading Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple), I find myself taking pause. It’s harder than usual to coalesce my thoughts. This book is an easy enough read, but it’s also a bit disconnected. As author Jeffrey Kluger suggests, “simplicity and complexity may masquerade as each other,” [...]
