Books
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Book: Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
→: Book: Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real LifeOf course I had heard the song “Sunscreen” and thought that it was advice from Baz Luhrmann himself, but I came across this book – Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life – by Mary Schmich. Who it turns out was the author. It opened explaining what happened, and how she was erased from her creation and how…
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Book: Hot Seat
→: Book: Hot SeatI’ve been talking to Dan online for a while now, mostly about women in tech stuff, and I have frequently thought that he (being a 4x startup CEO, and having made this really cool game) is the kind of person who I could get a lot of useful advice from… if I knew what to…
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Book: Confessions of a Public Speaker
→: Book: Confessions of a Public SpeakerI kept meaning to buy Confessions of a Public Speaker (Amazon) because I read his blog, and I finally got around to it. Part of the reason I was slow to buy it was because I think I ingest all the speaking advice I can already. Turns out, this book is mostly not advice –…
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Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels
→: Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating PanelsAs a long time reader of The Eloquent Woman blog, of course I bought Denise’s book, The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels (Amazon) almost as soon as it came out, and only waited a couple of weeks to read it! I’m not a fan of panels because so often they are bad, so it’s great to…
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Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night
→: Book: How to Sleep Well Every NightMy abiding memory of my teenage years is being sleep-deprived and exhausted. Being awake at 4am. Eventually, age 22, I trained myself to sleep with sleeping pills and ever since I’ve been mostly free of insomnia. It’s come with certain rituals though. When I travel, I get to be free of those rituals and do…
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Book: Thinking in Systems
→: Book: Thinking in SystemsI found Thinking in Systems (Amazon) via @jessitron’s excellent post Systems Thinking about WIT. I had been aware of some of the concepts of systems thinking for a while, but it was great to have a book that really explained it. I really enjoyed it. It articulated things that I intuitively understood but couldn’t explain, but also…
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Book: How to Invest Your Time Like Money
→: Book: How to Invest Your Time Like MoneyOne of the things I really liked about How to Invest Your Time Like Money (Amazon) is how short it was. There are plenty of lengthy books written about time management, I know I’ve read a bunch of them, and some of them have been very helpful. This book though, is short and strategic. Two key…
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Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation
→: Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generationIn the way of a lot of books that are a collection of blog posts, Women in IT (Amazon) is a bit disjointed and the writing varies. It’s also very promoting of the BCS which is not an organisation that I am involved with – I had to take a course at uni for accreditation…
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5 Books to Read Instead of Wadhwa
→: 5 Books to Read Instead of WadhwaI’m quoted in this New York Times article, which is awesome. And one of the things I like about it, is that it calls out that the published research doesn’t actually back up some of the points Wadhwa has been making. So it seemed timely to write up some books that I think would be…