Books
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Book: The Education of Millionaires
→: Book: The Education of MillionairesMy overall impression of The Education of Millionaires (Amazon) was a bit meh. It conflates getting an arts degree with a university education in general, and many of the examples come from direct marketing, which seems irrelevant to me. I think the calculations on cost/benefit of degrees could have been vastly improved by discounting science…
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Book: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
→: Book: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of ErrorThis book on wrongness – Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Amazon) – has to be one of the most fascinating I have read lately. It’s a surprisingly long, but very readable, book about why we get things wrong, what it feels like, and how we rewrite history in our heads to make it…
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GHC: Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney in Conversation
→: GHC: Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney in ConversationFirst real event of the conference, and sadly we were running a few minutes late, but I got to see most of this amazing conversation. Came into the middle of a conversation about women being described as “aggressive” – part of the bitch/pushover dichotomy. If you’re a pushover, you don’t get things because you “didn’t…
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Book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
→: Book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each OtherI found this book by Sherry Turkle – Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Amazon) fascinating, and think it’s worth a read for anyone who creates digital experiences, or just worries about their consumption of them. Things That Stood Out For Me How people interact with robots, what…
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Book: Making a World of Difference
→: Book: Making a World of DifferenceHaving been a foreigner in both China and the US, I found the cultural observations of this book (Amazon, which is only letting me link the Chinese version – the English version is here though), and the insights into the tech industry interesting. Particularly his time at Apple, and the need to create products out of…
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Book: Sonia Sotomayer, My Beloved World
→: Book: Sonia Sotomayer, My Beloved WorldI absolutely adored Sonia Sotomayor’s autobiography, My Beloved World (Amazon). She came from an underprivileged immigrent background, with an alcoholic father and a major health issue (diabetes) and is now on the Supreme Court. It’s an incredible story, really honest – she clearly worked incredibly hard, but there’s stories of failure (like her marriage, and an early internship) and insecurity…
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Book: Bossypants
→: Book: BossypantsI was reading Tina Fey’s book Bossypants (Amazon) as part of a group of us at work – after reading Lean In (Amazon) and having a discussion group, this came up as one to read next. Then I read an article complaining about her feminism, which I went looking for only to find this article about…
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Book: Unlocking the Clubhouse
→: Book: Unlocking the ClubhouseI’d heard about this book (Amazon) for a long time, but especially since I arrived here – the other women in the office are huge fans, and talked about it a lot. And I kept thinking I would get around to reading it, but no hurry, I’ve read a lot of the research, I think…
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MWF Seeks BFF
→: MWF Seeks BFFHeard about this blog via the lovely Erica, and since I wonder if I have enough local friends (and, obviously moving, the answer will once again be no) seemed like the book (Amazon) would be just the thing for one of the many, many long haul flights I’m taking. I really enjoyed it, very honest and funny.…