fighting the lack of good ideas
Albert-László Barabási’s book “Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades” is fascinating. In the same overall genre as Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers (review) – pop psychology and pop science – Bursts is a great read: bringing highly technical and dense topics to the masses in a manner that [apparently]…
Yesterday I promised you can read the abstracts from Robert Greene’s The Art of Seduction today. Part One – The Seductive Character The Siren A man is often secretly oppressed by the role he has to play – by always having to be responsible, in control, and rational. The Siren is the ultimate male fantasy…
Warning: This book contains, in places, intense terminology, and is directed at mentally-mature audiences Now back to our regularly-scheduled bog post After having read The 48 Laws of Power (and enjoying it), I decided to read some of Robert Greene’s other popular works. So, I read Mastery. And then I read The Art of Seduction….
In my ongoing hunt to find worth-while tech books (most recently in the field of cloud computing), I’m here today to write about Cloud Computing in Easy Steps by David Crookes. First to note – this book is NOT about how to deploy cloud computing. It is about how to use lots of free and inexpensive options if you…
The first comment I have about Barrie Sosinsky’s book, Cloud Computing Bible is that it’s the first one I’ve read that doesn’t appear to have any sucky parts. This is a plus. Hybrid Cloud for Dummies was pretty much a waste of time. Deploying OpenStack was even worse. Sosinsky’s work, though, is not only less…
Law 5 Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes…
Many years ago, I started programming C++ with a friend of the family and member of my home church. We dove in with Borland C++ for Dummies by Michael Hyman and Stephen Prata’s C++ Primer Plus (Waite Group). Prata’s book was fantastic – if you were at the advanced high school / collegiate level. While…
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