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by Alain Damasio For a little while, I've been reading fiction again, with a twist: I'm actually listening to it. One of the authors I wanted to "read" was the French author Alain Damasio, and I found a perfect occasion with the "Vallée du Silicium" audiobook. I'm not aware of any translation of this book at the time of writing, so this post is a review of the French audiobook. Read more… (3 min…
by James Stanier While exploring my own practice and professional development, the book "Become an effective software engineering manager" popped up on my reading list. This post is a review of the book. I found it contained useful insights and practical hints, but also some notable caveats. Read more… (5 min remaining to read)
by Yaron Herman Note: to the best of my knowledge today, this book is not published in English. Who knows... maybe this review will motivate you to learn and practice French or motivate a translation of the book. A little while ago, I was looking for material and advices about creativity and I came across a very peculiar book. First, the title was spot on. Second, the author is an artist that I…
by Eric Ries I recently decided to revisit a classic, a book published more than 12 years ago and that did not disapoint. It has all the talk about MVP and feedback loops that have become so commonly discussed nowadays. Plus a few gems that I was happy to pick on that new read. Read more… (3 min remaining to read)
by Chip and Dan Heath After reading their book on change management , I was curious to discover what the Heath brothers had to say about an even more fundamental topic: communication. And their previous book on the topic, called "Made to stick", did not disappoint and even managed to surprise me with its final advice. Read more… (3 min remaining to read)
by Annabelle Gawer, Michael A. Cusumano et al. Many years ago a friend of mine recommended a book called Platform Leadership that he had read as part of his own school curriculum. This book was a blast and dissected with great details and clarity two widely different ways to build platforms, two ways that both shaped the "computer" world we were living in, back then. Mostly focusing on how Intel…
by Chip and Dan Heath Switch is a book providing a way to think about change, how it impacts our fellow humans and how to facilitate for them - us really - going through it. The book is really easy and pleasant to read thanks to a perfect balance of real life examples, concrete case studies and a short set of recipes associated to them. Summarizing its key takeaways here would not be fair as the…
By General McChrystal et al. The book's main plot follows the Task force of the US Army in Iraq "after" the second war when it has to adapt to a guerilla-like war against AQI (Al Qaeda in Irak). The authors build their case for a "team of teams" kind of organisation via a succession of ReTeX accounts from military missions of that time. They also provide summaries of non-military case studies as a…
Spring was quite an "interesting time" for my personal project: WaterOnMars . Indeed I started to work on adding a new feature (a first in a while but maybe the topic of another post) but each time I was pushing or deploying code I was suddenly getting back warnings unrelated to my changes but pointing at core components like, err... Python or Django versions being deprecated. So kudos for Python…
In my previous post I announced my website's migration from Wordpress to Nikola . Still, with Wordpress having been my site's engine for so many years, I feel that I owe a few explanations to the community. In this post I'll enumerate what stands out in my (very good !) experience with Wordpress , plus a few words about zenPhoto and what makes the difference between those two and Nikola. Read…