BOOKS
Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card
Rigg thinks he's a simple trapper and wondered why his father made him learn so much about finance and government, but this training has prepared him for the world he's going to get thrust into. Join
Kill it with Fire - Marianne Bellotti
Marianne Bellotti
Kill it with Fire is all about how to manage legacy software projects. How do you determine if you need to rewrite it? How do you keep a team motivated while working on a legacy project? How do you s
Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
Cal Newport
Slow Productivity is Cal Newport’s 4th book looking at how to be productive and maximize your career. As such it blends portions of all the previous books, adding a few bits and rehashing many of the
Smart Brevity - Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz
Smart Brevity is here to teach you how to cater your communication to the over-stimulated worker, and community, of today. There are 4 Core ideas for the writing system presented. A muscular “tea
Defiant - Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
Defiant brings us the final face off between The Superiority and the few races that have gathered with Humanity to say no to the enslavement of everyone. Our protagonist, Spensa, has to wrangle with
The Cost of Being a Girl - Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Yasemin Besen-Cassino
In The Cost of Being a Girl, Besen-Cassino, looks at how part-time employment in the teenage years affects the income of teenage girls vs boys. The biggest takeaway is similar to what I’ve read in th
Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
This is the oldest book in Brandon Sanderson's writing that I've read, being published first in 2005. As such I found a few parts of the writing clearly still in development. Unlike other more curren
Translation State - Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie
Translation state takes a look at what it means to be human, and in this case, what it means to belong somewhere. We start meeting our 3 main characters, Enae, Reet and Qven and slowly are exposed to
The Promise of Access - Daniel Greene
Daniel Greene
Daniel Greene looks at the politically expedient idea that the problem with the workforce is that they don’t have access to computers (technology) and the skills to use said electronic devices. This
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu
Sure it's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure if it's the translation or the original writing…I just didn't like it. The most interesting thing was the protein folding idea for turning things into