Thursday, December 27, 2018

2018 Reading list

  1. Man's Search for meaning -Viktor E. Frankl
  2. Climate Change: What everyone needs to know – Joseph Romm
  3. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
  4. Man Plus – Frederik Pohl
  5. Childhood's end – Arthur C. Clarke
  6. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that transform the world – David Deutsch
  7. A Case of Conscience – James Blish
  8. Witch: A Tale of Terror – Charles MacKay
  9. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
  10. Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence – Max Tegmark
  11. Bullshit Jobs: A theory – David Graeber
  12. Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions – Johann Hari
  13. It doesn't have to be crazy at work – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hanson
  14. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – George R.R. Martin
  15. The case against education: Why the education system is a waste of time and money – Byran Caplan
  16. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations - Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

Friday, December 14, 2018

RIF Notes #49

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” ~ John Gall