My best reads of 2019
Writing about what I read in the past twelve months has become an annual ritual, part of the seasonal no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New …
books
The Hero
My lovely sister-in-law and her husband gave me this TLS monograph as a Christmas gift: The Hero, by Lee Child. It’s rather magnificent, so I’m …
Scrum, by Jeff Sutherland — Book report and highlights
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland is part memoir and part introductory practical guide to the Scrum …
New technology boosts the old
As cheerleaders for incumbent media often point out, the old is rarely replaced by the new. Newspapers weren’t killed by radio, radio wasn’t killed by …
Datafication
“Big data” as a term reminds me of “social media” a few years ago. It is in danger – through mis-use and over-use – of …
Why I finish books
Living with ebooks, as I have been since I bought my first iPad a few years back, has changed my reading. It’s also given me …
Hi-fidelity reading
The paperback book I am reading right now is The Big Sleep and Other Novels, by Raymond Chandler. It’s a lovely Penguin Classics imprint, thick and …
Book review: Culture Shock, by Will McInnnes
Disclaimer: I know Will. We work in the same town, in the same line of business and have evolved our approaches in parallel, you …
Long term trends: The Ngrams Viewer
“A database of intentions” is how John Battelle described Google. It is a thrilling concept, at times unsettling, that you can see into the searching …
Holiday reading
In case you are looking for some ideas about what to read in the remainder of the summer, here are the books that have tickled …