Tag: books
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Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night
My 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
I 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
One 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
In 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
I’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…
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Book: The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
I enjoyed The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life (Amazon), partially as a travel junkie (is it weird that his deportation from Eritrea makes me want to go?) and also as someone who is usually striving after some sort of goal. The book is about people who persevere for a…
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No Novel November (2014)
Like last year, I felt like I had been reading too many novels, and so as November approached I challenged myself to repeat last year’s experiment: No Novel November. It went less well than last year for a couple of reasons. I actually cracked and read a novel (Nov 26). I watched the entire of…
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Book: How to Deliver a TED Talk
How to Deliver a TED Talk (Amazon) is packed with some solid and fairly standard public speaking advice, which was good, but the most interesting parts for me were the deconstructions of TED talks. When prepping talks personally, I think a lot about my narrative, and taking notes during other peoples helps me see theirs better,…
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Book: Gravitas
I read Gravitas (Amazon) really slowly, and part of the reason for that was that I wanted to take the time and process each chapter. The “gravitas” eqation of Knowledge + purpose + passion (- anxiety) = Gravitas is what I think of as “poise”, and as I’ve mentioned before is my goal as a…