Book Review: Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas Friedman
The word “optimist” in the subtitle is very well earned here. Friedman’s book explains why/how someone can hope that the same technologies and macro-trends that
Author: Jonathan
Takeaways From 2021 State of DevOps
Why the State of DevOps is such a good report to read each year and what the takeaways are for 2021.
Book Review: Mindset by Carol Dweck
I can usually tell by 15 pages in to a self-help book whether it’s going to resonate with me; usually, it’s not going to. I
Book Review: Invent and Wander (collected Jeff Bezos)
Jeff Bezos built a company that’s worth about the same on the stock market ($1.67T) as the entire circulating supply of Pakistani Ruppees ($1.68T). That
Book Review: Promised Land by Barack Obama
I rarely bother to post books I read for pleasure on the blog, but I thought that a lot of the people that I know
Book Review: Ahead in the Cloud by Stephen Orban
I found a lot of great nuggets in this book, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it to everyone. If you’re trying to sell your
2021 New Years Resolutions
2020 was a year where I expected to just entrench and work on establishing myself at IBM. It was a really good year for that,
Book Review: Leading the Transformation by Gruver & Mouser
If you’ve read much of Gene Kim’s work you’ve heard of the transformation that HP Printers made to their firmware development process. Kim cites it
Book Review: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work by Karen Martin
I confess, Value Stream Mapping as a technique is something I already do with clients and I was reading this book mostly to make sure
Book Review: Unicorn Project
I actually finished the Unicorn Project a couple weeks ago and didn’t take great notes on it, so this won’t be as extensive of a