We had assigned reading for this class of The Soul of a New Machine. I cheated on this a tiny bit, in that I was away last week, and the book I had with me was not brilliant [to say the least]. So I decided to be good, and get this one and check it out. I was sitting in a bar in Lisbon, Portugal. I launched my Kindle, and found the book in 2 minutes, cost was only €4.50, and 2 minutes later I had the book. On its own this is a brilliant use case for the kindle and its Whisper sync functionality. I can get a book basically anywhere on earth, in seconds. You cannot but be amazed and admire that, regardless of what you think of other aspects of Amazon's business practices.
On the subject of the book, many wont have read it yet. Without giving anything away, its interesting that at the very start of my career [a long 16 or 17 years ago] I worked in a couple of software companies with a culture and environment a lot like what the book describes. Overall at the time I did not mind, but I look back and think that I learned a lot from those experiences, but many of those learnings are things not to do again and places where we were disgustingly inefficient in terms of planning or process. I think many of the people in the book would say the same thing.
Anyway, more on that whole subject in a few weeks :)
Can't wait to hear how the world has moved on :-)
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