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Review: Wise Guy

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

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 naming things,…

Review: The Victory Machine

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…

Review: Always Day One

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

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 good life.…

Review: Exhalation

Review: Exhalation

Exhalation is the latest collection of short stories from science fiction writer Ted Chiang. As with his previous book, Stories of Your Life and Others , the set of stories is collected and curated across a fairly wide range of settings,…