Book Reviews
Review: An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
One nice benefit of not having any job lined up is that there is more time, outside of household chores and virtual schooling, to read and listen to podcasts, catching up with my backlog of to-be-consumed media. It&…
Review: In Defense of Elitism
After Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and through the duration of his first term as the US President, there have been, by my estimation, at least two new types of literature that have gotten popular, usually in the form…
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…
