More and more great tech books are marked-up plain text stored in version control and render-able to ebook/HTML/PDF. Examples: Pro Git (source) The Little MongoDB Book (source) Ops School (source) The Node Beginner Book (source) Turns out many ideas in this approach are recycled. Heck, Knuth released TeX in 1978. One new-ish piece is this …
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Science Fiction
I like Science Fiction because it scares me. It opens my mind to new ideas. And sometimes the fiction becomes reality. Just the other day I finished Robopocalypse (a great read!). Today I thumb through my news feed and hear that California just joined a couple other states in legalizing self-driving cars and Toyota continues to make …
Swimming in the deep end
A coworker forwarded me an inspiring article from the Harvard Business Review. I was interested after the first paragraph, and was looking excitedly looking forward to finishing it along with a cookie. But I could not!