As my previous post made clear, my recourse when things are busy & hectic is to often resort to crime fiction - it's less demanding, provides escapism, and (often) ties things up in a neat resolution (unlike real life!). However, in amongst the serial killers, police inspectors and spycraft, I've managed to read a few… Continue reading 2023 reading so far: non-fiction
Category: tech
Year 4 / Book 13: Hello World
13) Hello World by Hannah Fry As the pace of technological change seems to become ever more speedy, it's easy to just shrug and gloss over the terminology and accept what is said at face value - or at least it is for me. So self-driving cars are a couple of years away, facial recognition… Continue reading Year 4 / Book 13: Hello World
Year 3 / Book 44: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
44) The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz This book came to me recommended by the facilitator of the Action Learning Set I'm in for new CEOs (if I can still be counted as new 9 months in). It's written by Ben Horowitz who I hadn't heard of, but is clearly pretty well… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 44: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Year 3 / Book 38: The People vs Tech
38) The People vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett This book was recommended to me by Amir, and to be honest at the end of it I don't know entirely whether to thank him or throw the book at him (in the literal sense). Not because it's not good and fascinating, but because it is, at… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 38: The People vs Tech
Dog-eared Man: a book a week 