Tag: Books
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The coming AI backlash: capital is not here to make friends
[O]ur fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is already doing. And: the threat isn’t so much that AI is inevitable as that the ongoing—and likely expanding—immiseration of workers is unstoppable. This is the subtext of the strange and conflicted messaging that we get from the…
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Relative to your interests, Saturday morning
The Draw Boy – Remove a bottleneck (usually humans), and supply can meet demand. New demand is created, people but more, new things are invented, people but those. New roles are often created to handle the new businesses. It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines –…
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For a long time I foolishly scorned George Orwell. I think the prejudice is common among people of my generation (well among people of my generation who care about such things). Orwell is viewed as a fetish of boomer columnists – the types of people who sit in their houses in Hampstead being paid six…
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Relevant to your interests, Monday
The Revenge of QA: How AI Code Generation Is Exposing Decades of Process Debt – “AI isn’t revealing new problems – it’s exposing decades of process debt we’ve been carrying all along.” / One bottleneck after another… Morally judging famous and semi-famous people – “spending real time and energy morally judging famous and semi-famous people…
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Books added to the To Read List: The Savage Sword of Conan (2024-) #1, The Making of Prince of Persia, The English and Their History, The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity, The Land Trap.
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Books: Stubborn Attachments
Stubborn Attachments is a weird book. Perhaps because it was published in 2018 it has an out of time agenda that no longer seems to need arguing for. The book obsesses over a “we can all agree on cheese” argument: it’s desirable to be more prosperous in the future than today. We can all agree…
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The Joys of Marginalia
I can’t really concentrate on reading unless I have a pen in my hand. I love marginalia. I love used books and getting a glimpse of some stranger’s relationship to a book that is now in my life. I underline, star, box, vent, exclaim. I like rereading my books and seeing coffee stains or chocolaty…
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You go to war with the knowledge you have
“Managing the incompleteness of communications” is core to mastering agile software development. —Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) I recall reading the first edition of this book years ago. Man, that was fun.
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Notebooks from dime novels
Notebooks from old books, originally uploaded by cote. Check out these blank books made with covers of old, lurid and cheesy paperbacks. I spotted these at the Blue Genie Christmas Bazaar this year in Austin. As the little note next to them said, this is an example of upcycling, or making something new out of…
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Matter and Anti-Matter
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations Do you think if I order those two books, they’ll dukes it out and destroy each other in the box in transit?
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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