In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

This past weekend I finished listening to In The Plex. This book is just awesome. If you have been in web development since before google existed & been following google, you must read this book. For me, it was like taking a stroll down memory lane, filling the gaps of my knowledge. Whether because it was something that I didn’t have the time to follow or it was very much a behind the door event,...

The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cover via Amazon Couple of weeks ago I finished reading “The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb. I greatly recommend this book, in fact I am now reading Nassim’s previous book. What is a black swan? Briefly an unknown unknown. Something that is completely out of the blue that it’s practically impossible to plan for. If you planned for it, the black swan would be something else. Not to say...

The upside of irrationality – Dan Ariely

Cover via Amazon This weekend I listened to “The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home” by Dan Ariely. Once again Dan writes, with a really witty and friendly prose, an important look at how we make decisions. Although it seemed there weren’t really many upsides I think that some of them were left to us to conjure. He does make some examples...

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

Cover via Amazon A couple of weeks ago I finished reading “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose” by Tony Hsieh. It’s a great book and I recommend it to anybody curious about Zappos or on how to build a culture within a company. I found the book refreshing in its honesty. I was surprised with Tony’s poor ethic as an Oracle employee and many more revelations...