I started a new job here last week. Didn't have any time to read. Hopefully I'll get back on track this week. Exciting job though!
Book Review: Peopleware (2nd edition) by Tom Demarco and Timothy R. Lister
I start a new job on Monday, leading a tech team of around 20 people, so this week's book is some food for thought on how to give them my best. [Note, this review is being written in the air between London and LA, on an "overnight" flight where the sun seems to be staying … Continue reading Book Review: Peopleware (2nd edition) by Tom Demarco and Timothy R. Lister
Book Review: Factfulness by Hans Rosling
This is the best book I've read in a while. It is very easy to walk around thinking the world is a terrible place, with insurmountable problems. In reality, most of the problems are not insurmountable, in fact we (the human species) have actually made a whopping dent in a great many of them! In … Continue reading Book Review: Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Book Review: College Disrupted by Ryan Craig
Around the world the benefit of holding a university degree is being called into question; in my industry (technology) we are currently bordering on an anti-degree backlash (not something I ascribe to). This book is a look at some of the problems with higher education in the USA, and is maybe a little obscure for … Continue reading Book Review: College Disrupted by Ryan Craig
Book Review: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
I'm carrying around 20 - 30 extra kilograms of bodyweight, and my plan to get rid of it was a fairly standard one: starve myself as long as I can manage. Turns out the science says this is incredibly bad for you, and that it is unlikely to succeed in the long run. The premise … Continue reading Book Review: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
Book Review: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Who was Leonardo da Vinci? The guy who painted the Mona Lisa, right? Oh and he had some crazy ideas for some machines that never would have worked, right? If, like me, you never gave Leonardo da Vinci much more thought than that, Walter Isaacson's book "Leonardo da Vinci" will be an interesting read, and … Continue reading Book Review: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Book Review: Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler
This was supposed to be posted last week, I actually read the book very early in the week (it is quite short) and decided to get a head-start on the next one (Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, it is quite long, the review will be a bit late). I heard about Everything Happens for … Continue reading Book Review: Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler
Book Review: The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb
I've set myself the goal of reading a book a week, and writing a brief review of it - to evaluate and cement my thoughts on it, not because I want to become a book critic. This week I read "The Signals are Talking", by Amy Webb. The author is a quantative futurist, which I guess … Continue reading Book Review: The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb
Book Review: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
So I'm a bit of a workaholic. My wife, gently seeking to change this, sent me an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, this episode. The podcast is an interview with Matthew Walker, a sleep scientist (pretty sure he's Dr Matthew Walker, non-medical, but he doesn't seem to make a big deal out of that). Lets … Continue reading Book Review: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
GPU-accelerated Photo processing
Seems a bit passé right? Well apparently not. Apparently using the GPU to do all the heavy lifting isn't something that the popular photography applications do. Lightroom and Photoshop have some GPU acceleration, but apparently Lightroom doesn't really benefit unless you have a big display (I guess they do all their rendering on a smaller … Continue reading GPU-accelerated Photo processing
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