A Bit of Background I have been looking for a backup solution for home. Ever since I took up a digital camera in 2001, I have been accumulating quite a bit of slices of my life in the form of digital photos. That collection grew with the arrival of my daughter. I never liked the [...]
As a person who enjoys movie and technologies in audio-video entertainment, I really enjoyed this historical overview by Scott Kirsner. The main thread of his storytelling is the struggles between the innovators and the “preservationists” (or “status quo”), and mostly focused on the triumphs on the innovators’ part. And I think that was the only [...]
Another pickup from Fresh Air and TED. Also, Dan Ariely sometimes does guest appearance on Marketplace. This book has some similarities to Freakonomics, but it was more about the social experiments that he and his colleagues have done. They are showing that we are irrational often times and the irrational behaviors are predictable (or statistically [...]
I get a lot of book references from Fresh Air and TED and I heard about Steven Pinker on both. This book is about the recent developments in social science on human nature (“nature” vs. “nurture” is a very controversial subject). According to Mr. Pinker, the prevalent assumptions in the 20th century about human nature [...]
I heard it mentioned in The Totally Rad Show, one of many Podcasts that I follow. It was described as one of the classic American graphic novels and I have been interested in the basics of the American graphic novel histories, so I decided to give it a try. Well, the problems for me were [...]
After I started at a new company, I thought I might want to look at “project management” again. And I just searched through books on Amazon.com and decided on this book. I thought it was very practical and had good procedural suggestions. It would have been really helpful if I was involved in a project [...]
I heard about Jill Bolte Taylor and her amazing personal account of stroke and recovery from TED and Fresh Air. I think her speech was much more entertaining. The book had more details, but after finish reading it, I think it does not have enough material for a book (despite however short it was).