Last 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 in places [...]
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In Pursuit of Elegance
July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Ideas, Inspiration, Non-fiction, Reading
Subject To Change
June 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Non-fiction, Reading, Technology
I 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 group’s subjective [...]
Simplexity
January 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Non-fiction
After 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,” but [...]
Outliers
December 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Ideas, Inspiration, Lessons, Life, Non-fiction, Open source, Random, Site
Since reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell’s next book. Outliers: The Story of Success didn’t disappoint, and I recommend reading it yourself.
As the book’s title suggests, Gladwell’s text is about success and outliers; however, [...]
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The Big Switch
August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Non-fiction, Reading
I finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google back in June, but am just now getting to blogging my thoughts on this book. Something about shipping software…
Carr carefully recounts how the electrical industry evolved, and focused on the personalities of early central players such as Thomas [...]
