Tag: Books
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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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Link: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
Original source: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #35
20 July 2018 We move to Amsterdam in 11 days. Cloud Native Journey, 3rd edition In my capacity as an enterprise thought lord, I write up how large organizations are managing to improve their software every few years. It’s the main thing I talk with people about and “work on.” I’ve been working on a…
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Link: On Preferring A to B, while also preferring B to A
‘There is a tendency to think that joint evaluation is always better since it is the “full information” condition. Sunstein pushes against this interpretation because he argues that full information doesn’t mean full rationality.’ Placing value on something is situational and filled mostly with personal (or organization) judgement. Original source: On Preferring A to B,…
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Link: The Book Is a Time Machine
Books as information tool and lifestyle are complex. “Displayed books gesture forward and backward to acts of reading and rereading; of purchasing, posing, moving, and unpacking; of passing time and dropping into its folds.” Original source: The Book Is a Time Machine
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Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism
“Taking criticism is the search for actionable feedback.” Related: curiosity is a good shield against the world crushing your self-confidence. Original source: How to take, and benefit from criticism
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #34
The problem with me and newsletters is that I constantly want to make one, but they’re a lot of work. I long for the old blog days of just a splatter of content, a wunderkammer. Let’s try this commonplace book format. Software Defined Talk Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of…
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Link: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr
Original source: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr
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Link: Online Community building books
“Lately, I’ve been reading several really good books about building communities and thought I’d share them with you.” Original source: Online Community building books
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Link: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List)
Self-help/improvement type-stuff, mostly. Original source: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List)
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Link: Adam Smith, Misanthrope
‘The feminist writer Katrine Marcal recently wrote a critique of modern economics under the title “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?” A fair question; for most of Smith’s life the answer was his mother, who predeceased him by only six years.’ Original source: Adam Smith, Misanthrope
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Link: “The Lazy River”
“I heard one man with a fashionable haircut say he could swim the whole length backward. I heard his hipster wife dare him to do it. They had time for such games, having no children. But when he turned and made the attempt he was swept away within the minute.” Original source: “The Lazy River”
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Link: Keep a common place book
“Wisdom, not facts. We’re not just looking random pieces of information. What’s the point of that? Your commonplace book, over a lifetime (or even just several years), can accumulate a mass of true wisdom–that you can turn to in times of crisis, opportunity, depression or job.” Original source: Keep a common place book
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Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent?
“I had experienced being judged as a mother, when I periodically left my son with my husband from the age of six months – he is six now – to go away to write. I only departed for a week at a time. But who knows what I might have done had I lived in…
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Link: Vivisectionary by Kate Lacour | Study Group Comic Books
Weird, fun drawings. Original source: Vivisectionary by Kate Lacour | Study Group Comic Books
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