{"id":652,"date":"2007-10-24T05:39:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T10:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/24\/books-october-2007"},"modified":"2007-10-24T05:39:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T10:39:21","slug":"books-october-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/24\/books-october-2007","title":{"rendered":"books, october 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I did a book&#8217;s I&#8217;ve read update. And really, the reason I do it is to ensure I don&#8217;t go out and buy doubles, because I do have a pile of &#8220;books I want to read&#8221;. Maybe I should use LibraryThing (USD$25, lifetime) or AllConsuming (free, integrates with 43things, etc.). But its nothing like walking into a physical bookstore, and whipping out your phone, and hitting the blog, to do a search ;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Google Story<\/b> &#8211; David A. Vise &#8211; an amazing read, about a company that started in a university. Lots of gems, not that I didn&#8217;t already know most of them, but still, useful. Explaining 20% time, Google hacks, even a recipe from the chef, just gives you a good idea of the whole Google family.<\/li>\n<li><b>NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)&#8230; The new art and science of getting what you want<\/b> &#8211; Dr. Harry Alder &#8211; I liked this book, but I felt it was filled with too much theory. It isn&#8217;t until past halfway through that you <i>learn<\/i> to <i>control<\/i> the situation. I think it could have focused on a more howto-styled approach, to ensure that the reader finds no hassle controlling their next subject!<\/li>\n<li><b>The Tipping Point<\/b> &#8211; Malcolm Gladwell &#8211; great book, I only wish I&#8217;d read it earlier. Crossing the threshold is most interesting, differentiating between connectors\/mavens\/salesmen, how exceptional people start epidemics, stickyness factors, and so much more. I&#8217;d encourage anyone attempting to build up a community or work with an OSS community to read this.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Undercover Economist<\/b> &#8211; Tim Harford &#8211; I love reading about economics, and this book continued fuelling my interest. I think to technology folk, what&#8217;s most interesting is how Tim put in words, how most technology nowadays is so easy to create\/replicate, and since there&#8217;s a lack of scarcity, these companies move\/fold quickly. There&#8217;s more to the book than just those three pages, I&#8217;d recommend this highly (in fact, I got a copy for Giuseppe in Heidelberg for just this purpose &#8211; he book-swapped with me, I got the God Delusion, which I haven&#8217;t read yet).<\/li>\n<li><b>Founders At Work<\/b> &#8211; Jessica Livingston &#8211; Excellent read. About companies you use currently. Or used (there have been some deaths, or sites that lost out the scarcity war). A must read, because Jessica gets into the founders&#8217; heads.<\/li>\n<li><b>Bella Tuscany<\/b> &#8211; Frances Mayes &#8211; wanting to complete my reading interest in all things Frances Mayes, I just had to read this. And its only made me want to go to Tuscany a lot more (from what I hear, its filled with foreign tourists and not Italians nowadays, because of her books &#8211; I&#8217;m told Sardinia might be a better bet :P)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Year of Yes<\/b> &#8211; Maria Headley &#8211; A girl from a small town in the US, moves to New York, and says &#8220;yes&#8221; to all manner of men that ask her out on dates. For a whole year. She found a partner in the end, which I found kinda ironic (but I guess this is what fairytales are made of). It left me asking the question: why would a 21-year old girl do this? Was the sole purpose to write about it? <\/li>\n<li><b>English as a Second F*cking Language<\/b> &#8211; Sterling Johnson &#8211; While English is my first language (and realistically, my only language that I can read\/write\/converse fluently in), this book was too hard to not pick up. Saw this in a bookstore in Germany, and boy is it funny. Teaches you all the stuff you really shouldn&#8217;t use, but hey, its humorous!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I did a book&#8217;s I&#8217;ve read update. And really, the reason I do it is to ensure I don&#8217;t go out and buy doubles, because I do have a pile of &#8220;books I want to read&#8221;. Maybe I should use LibraryThing (USD$25, lifetime) or AllConsuming (free, integrates with 43things, etc.). 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