Tag: Books
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Deep Work summarized by Phil Gyford
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Driven by art, the diffusion of innovation, or just being weird
What is a Life Dedicated to Art? What does it mean to live a life dedicated to art, focused on art? I know what it means and feel like for a software developer to dedicate your life to programming, to technology innovation. It is somewhat indescribable: you just do it because you think it’s important…
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Reading the Internet – Using ChatGPT as a reading log, Readwise Reader Review
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. A short Readwise Reader Review I’ve been using Readwise and its Reader app for about a month. I think it’s great – I pay for it. Reader is a straight-up Instapaper replacement with a text-to-speech function and AI capabilities for summarizing articles and answering questions. The AI stuff isn’t that great…
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Living with “a self-styled countess and her companion, a blackmailer, alchemist, magician and thief”
# Well, that was weird… If you need proof that “money is not real,” I submit this chart: I mean, sure, money is “real,” and I’d prefer more than less of it. But, with a fluctuation over such a short amount of time as this, I’m kind of like “really? Try harder, money!” At one…
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Sunday Night Link Treat
*Just a few links of interest for Sunday night and a couple of books.* # Relevant to your interests – Making Jodorowsky’s Tron – “That’s how powerful it is to allow A.I. to generate pictures of films or other art objects you wish could exist. It’s like watching a magic show. Going in, you know…
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Art as Therapy, your house edition; therapy from Jeb Bush, have an ask; burn the hatchet
(I’ve been consolidating all the past places I’ve had newsletters. If you got this email in error, or don’t want it, here is the unsubscribe link. I apologize for the merge-madness.) Epigraph for this issue: it’s probably fine. Theme song: “Rise,” Herb Alpert. The Beautiful House As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young I…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #54
Developers don’t actually want to change the batteries. Bruegel Original content Software Defined Talk #328: Your MOM is a SaaS This week we discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase. A Shift in Mindset it Critical The missing parts of scaling up DevOps are…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #50
Nothing profound this time. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Free DevOps conference, DevOps Loop, Oct 4th Promotional gif A conference I helped put together, DevOps Loop, is next week. I’m putting together my presentation “fear of change.” So far, I’m playing around with the notion of going over fear of change in more literary sources. There’s…
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Link: People read books for different reasons, beyond entertainment & learning
One thing I’ve learned, writing books and then talking to people about those books and others, is that people read for wildly different reasons. I don’t only mean they read different books for different reasons – “I like mysteries, because they keep my brain occupied”; “I like fantasy novels, because they offer me a world…
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Monolithic Transformation
My booklet, Monolithic Transformation is finally out. It collects together the stories and successful tactics large organizations are using to get better at software. You can get a free copy from Pivotal or search around to find it elsewhere.
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Book finally out: Monolithic Transformation
Hello there! My little booklet on how enterprises are improving their software organizations is finally out: Monolithic Transformation. It’s one of those little O’Reilly books, sponsored by Pivotal. I’ve worked on it for a couple years, frequently excerpting drafts of it and using it as the basis for the talks I give. You can get…
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Link: The Economists books of the year, 2018
That’s a lot of books, fiction even. Original source: The Economists books of the year, 2018
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #45
I’ve spent most of my content-time this week editing Monolithic Transformation. It’s rewording to simplify text here and there, and even better to slice out whole paragraphs. 18 pages in, I’ve reduced it by 3 pages. Let’s say I hit 1 page per 10, then the 82 page book will whittle down to, what, 74…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #44
There is no Thanksgiving in the Netherlands. WHO KNEW?! Winter is settling in here. As a Texan, I barely understand winter. But, also as a Texan, I find cold weather novel and fun. We’ll see if that lasts, but for now, it’s awesome. Also, biking turns out to be fantastic. Living all my life in…
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Link: The new tech effecting culture outline
The trajectory of books about new technologies follows a similar pattern: first, hype; then, backlash; then, finally, a more considered view of what it might actually be good for. Yup. Checks out. Original source: The new tech effecting culture outline
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Link: Diplomacy and delusion: books to understand differences between Brits and Americans
As it says, some books. Original source: Diplomacy and delusion: books to understand differences between Brits and Americans
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Link: Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman review – the travails of being an MP | Books | The Guardian
Sounds like a (rightly) sympathetic, interesting take on being a representative. Original source: Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman review – the travails of being an MP | Books | The Guardian
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #38
I’ve been in this quiet before the business-travel shit-storm for the past two weeks. Next week it slowly starts up. In the meantime, it’s given me time to get back to writing on the cloud native book I’ve been working on it. There’s links to some excerpts in progress below. Also, I made the entire…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #36
We move to Amsterdam in 5 days. We’re nearly done packing up our whole house. It’s surprisingly easy to just get rid of things, all things: clothes, kitchen stuff, furniture. People say this all the time and it’s true: you should get your house in shape for selling while you live there so you can…
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