Current Reading (or Re-Reading) List

I’ve been concentrating so much time on learning new technologies over the last couple years that I’ve been remiss in reading my non-computer books. So to help get me back in the swing of things, I decided to hit my personal library and pull out some of my favorites from just before I stopped. I got 2 science and 2 business books that I recommend highly.

Business

The McKinsey Way by Ethan M. Rasiel

If you are a consultant, or thinking about getting into consulting, read this book. For all the Micrsofties, I’d also recommend this book as the compliment to How Would You Move Mount Fuji. While How Would You Move Mount Fuji may help you get into companies like Microsoft, The McKinsey Way describes how to succeed once you get there.

Creative Destruction by Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan

Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market – and Hot to Successfully Transform Them Another McKinsey book, but if you want to learn foster change in your company (or yourself for that matter) by breaking down areas, and then rebuilding. Whenever you hear someone say “Because we’ve always done it this way”, that’s the first sign complacency has crept in, and it times to rebuild the area.

Science

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

If you are into superstrings and the Theory of Everything this book was made for you.

Phantoms In the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., PH.D. and Sandra Blakeslee

I originally came across Dr. Ramachandran’s work with the brain through a PBS documentary, and became intrigued with his work. There are some great stories about people who has lost limbs, and how their phantom limbs can still affect there everyday life.

DonXML

[Listening to: Roads to Madness - Queensrÿche ]

2 Comments

  • If your interested in Ramachandran's research, you should check out Andy Clark's "Natural Born Cyborgs." He spends a lot of time discussing Dr. Ramachandran's research and how it illustrates that the human mind is a very "plastic" entity -- capable of integrating and interfacing with a wide variety of nonbiological technology.



    The title may sound a little bit hokey, but the book is actually very good if you're interested in the relationship between mind and technology.

  • "I’ve been concentrating so much time on learning new technologies over the last couple years that I’ve been remiss in reading my non-computer books."



    So true... It's strange how *years* can just float by without getting the chance to do much of anything non-job related.



    Blah. Need more time.



    More time, more time, more time...

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