Posts tagged with Reading
Review: Uncanny Valley
I first figured that Uncanny Valley , from its back-of-the-book description, is just another tech industry exposé. As a 20-year resident of this area, I'm not exactly its intended audience, and so the shock value of reading about our…
Review: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
What Got You Here Won't Get You There feels like a book written for a past era. The author is an executive coach—an actual one, who regularly takes on Fortune 500 C-level executives as clients, as opposed…
Review: If You Want to Write
Off of the glowing recommendation in Wise Guy that this is the book to read if you aspire to be an author, I took a quick read of Brenda Ueland's most famous publication If You Want to Write.…
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's…
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…
