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Tag Archives: Books
Book Review: Cognitive Surplus – Clay Shirky
Subtitled “Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age”, this is social media theorist Clay Shirky’s second book after Here Comes Everybody, which concerned itself with the dynamics of using social tools to “organize without organizations”. Cognitive Surplus starts with a … Continue reading
Book Review: Daemon – Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez’s Daemon is a kick in the head akin to Neuromancer or Snow Crash. But unlike those two, it is set in essentially the present day and can be realized with today’s technology or close to it. Prepare to … Continue reading
Book Review: The Big Switch
Nick Carr made his name with the provocative Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” (free version here), its expansion into a less definitively titled book Does IT Matter? and his generally erudite blog. The charge of irrelevance hit the … Continue reading
Book Review: Options – Fake Steve Jobs
For the uninitiated, Fake Steve Jobs originated as a blog purportedly written by the CEO of Apple (but whose author was eventually revealed to be Dan Lyons who writes for Forbes), where he shares his inner-most thoughts in a way the … Continue reading
Book Review: The Black Swan
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is sort of a follow-up to his earlier Fooled By the Randomness, which dealt with why people are poorly suited to decision-making in the face of uncertainty. The Black Swan deals with the … Continue reading
