Books
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Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the Incrementalist
→: Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the IncrementalistMaking Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Amazon) is a must for anyone who feels their genius is insufficiently recognized and needs to start focusing on action, not ideas. In my In Pursuit of Awesome talk, one of the points was – “Ideas are Cheap. Execution is expensive.” This book is all…
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Books to Read Before You Graduate: Design Patterns
→: Books to Read Before You Graduate: Design PatternsDesign Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software – I had to read and study this for a class, and then we played Design Pattern Poker, where we “played” the design patterns we had in order to solve a problem. Seemed like nonsense at first, but then I read the book. And saw solutions that I’d…
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Drive by Daniel Pink
→: Drive by Daniel PinkThe premise of Drive is that “if-then” rewards don’t motivate us, and actually what people need are three things – Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. I.e. you want a higher reason for doing what you’re doing, be working towards mastery in the process, and have as much control as possible about when/where/how you do that. The cover of Drive…