Bytes that get stuck in your teeth.
Lots of talk of backing up and stripping DRM from Kindle books lately.
In my associated adventures I found this app for doing similar with your Audible library.
My photo book tour continues with Australian Lustre.
Reading it transports me to every country town I’ve ever visited.
I enjoyed the juxtaposition of big things and suburbia the most.
I’m working on reading more photography books.
So, yesterday, I grabbed Colin Greenwood’s How to Disappear while I was out and about1.
The Friction project collects strategies for removing and adding friction so organisations function better.
Adam Grant stuffs Hidden Potential with loads of anecdotes and research on growth, learning, and performance.
Excellence relies less on our natural talent.
The Psychology of Money covers how doing well with money is more dependent on your behaviour than what you know.
Plenty in here I haven’t read that I’ll add to my list.
The Trusted Advisor is a book focused on trust and relationships in professional services but feels applicable to any work partnership.
How to Decide digs into the characteristics of decision making and provides tools for making better decisions.
This book surveys data storage and distributed systems and is a fantastic primer for all software developers.
A long list of sci fi books to read.
Always interesting to see the books he recommends.
Programming well is hard. Here are a few books that have helped me improve that I recommend.
This contains plenty of great advice even if you don’t code in Ruby. It focusses in on the message passing aspect of OO and how to structure your code around that ideal whilst keeping it amenable to change.