- Man's Search for meaning -Viktor E. Frankl
- Climate Change: What everyone needs to know – Joseph Romm
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- Man Plus – Frederik Pohl
- Childhood's end – Arthur C. Clarke
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that transform the world – David Deutsch
- A Case of Conscience – James Blish
- Witch: A Tale of Terror – Charles MacKay
- Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence – Max Tegmark
- Bullshit Jobs: A theory – David Graeber
- Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions – Johann Hari
- It doesn't have to be crazy at work – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hanson
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – George R.R. Martin
- The case against education: Why the education system is a waste of time and money – Byran Caplan
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations - Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
Thursday, December 27, 2018
2018 Reading list
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
- The Agile Fluency Model – “Organizational leaders are complaining that they’re not getting the benefits they expected. This article presents a fluency model that will help you get the most out of agile ideas”
- The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration – “In short, rather than prompting increasingly vibrant face-to-face collaboration, open architecture appeared to trigger a natural human response to socially withdraw from officemates and interact instead over email and IM”
- Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms – “Some organisations stumble when they attempt to build on top of their existing shared services without first addressing their organisational structure and operation model”
- The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness
- The Flow Framework will enable your company's evolution from project-oriented dinosaur to product-centric innovator that thrives in the Age of Software
- The Case for the 6-Hour Workday - “People waste a lot of time at work,” according to Grant. “I’d be willing to bet that in most jobs, people would get more done in six focused hours than eight unfocused hours.”
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