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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Reading'
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 [...]
The Big Switch
August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Non-fiction, Reading
TweetI 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 Edison [...]
