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 [...]
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 [...]
Does ’seam carving’ generalize?
August 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Content management, Ideas, Reading
During a recent Charlie Rose interview with Peter Chernin, the subject of media formats came up, which reminded me of an earlier question I raised, “What is the natural unit of written collaboration?” When I mused upon this question it was in the context of documents and written content. I hadn’t really thought about so-called [...]
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The Myths of Innovation
December 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Ideas, Inspiration, Non-fiction, Reading
Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation is a refreshingly unpretentious read–one that I accomplished straightaway in an afternoon (off).
Here are my takeaways–all quotes are Scott’s unless explicitly noted otherwise:
Innovation as an accumulation of smaller insights…connecting pieces…realizing picture (puzzle); therefore, take action to enable insights to occur more freely.
Work passionately and take breaks to let the [...]
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