I’ve been reading close to one book a week for the past year, and have nearly achieved Buddha-hood. I’ll be reviewing them all here eventually, now that I have a trusty C-Pen.
But today I am for the first time thinking of ditching a book on my self-assigned list. I just started reading “Space and Place: The Perspective [...]
Aaron Clauset has a rambling post attempting to contrast science favorably with non-science. The key defining difference is easy to sum up; science seeks to disconfirm. The rest of his post talks about things that are shared by science and non-science alike.
He does quote a useful little statement, which can be applied to the “Metcalfe’s [...]
I hadn’t heard of Owen Barfield before last month. Based on an interesting quote and a recommendation that he has a “unique epistemology”, I picked up a copy of “Saving the Appearances“, and just finished reading it.
It turns out the book isn’t really an epistomology, but rather a treatise on the author’s opinions about [...]
The Program Managerrole at Microsoft is not anything like the “Program Manager” role outside of Microsoft, and is not really the same as a “Project Manager” role at most places. Program Managers in product development are a mix of “Business Analyst” and “Project Manager”, with a few other things thrown in.
For people familiar with the [...]
I recently finished reading Confessions of an Economic Hitman. In this book, John Perkins writes about his career as a self-described?Economic Hitman?. Essentially, Perkins worked for a contracting company where he produced fraudulently inflated economic forecasts to justify large world bank and IMF loans to governments purchasing his company’s services. His company was the (erstwhile) [...]