Book Reviews
Review: Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
The original Netflix culture deck[1] is one of the major pieces of modern Silicon Valley lore. It’s a presentation describing the core tenets the culture at Netflix, a set of aggressive norms rebuking what its authors perceive as…
Review: Wise Guy
Wise Guy is a memoir, of sorts, from Guy Kawasaki. To be honest, I didn't know who he actually is and what he has accomplished; it had felt like he was famous for being famous, almost the silicon…
Naming Things Good
A colleague reminded me of this corny computer science joke a couple months back: There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. Though there are some who dispute the difficulty of…
Review: The Victory Machine
Apparently I have more confidence in your abilities than you do. - Bill Parcells, NFL coach, trying to motivate an underperforming player without insult I’ve always held admiration for professional sports, in its lessons around management and perseverance and teamwork…
Review: Always Day One
Did you know that there's an internal tools team within Apple that's staffed by contractors looking primarily to stay employed? Can you find a way to tie that to Amazon's infamous "It is…
Review: Art of the Good Life
Early on, it wasn't clear that Art of the Good Life was going to be much different than countless other self-help books that promise the nirvana of disproportionate self-driven improvement that eventually leads to, well, the…
