My book wishlist:
... is now at BookMooch?. I'm now addicted to BookMooch?. I like sending books to people, not that I have many on the list.
http://bookmooch.com/m/wishlist/eraserhd
Books I've read (2010):
Books I've read (2009):
Books I've read (2008):
Books I've read (2007):
Books I've read (2006):
Books I've read (2005):
Books I've read (2004 and before):
Jason, making the lists is also fun. You could do what I did - write up the list, and then completely disregard it in favor of buying whatever book you think you need most when book-buying time comes around. Anyway, welcome here ! :) -- lb
I will certainly be happy to comment, once I get to it--just no promises on when I will get to it. :-)
So we're nearing the end of 2006, and I started bookshelving (to verb the nounage) in the middle of 2004. This provides me with close to two calendar years of perhaps typical reading. I seem to average in the low twenties in terms of books read per year. Let's say 22.
I'm 31. My father's father died in his early seventies, my father's mother in her middle eighties, and my mother's parents in their early sixties. Let's choose, say 72 for life expectancy. All were coherent and capable of reading until the end. This leaves 41 years of productive book-reading at 22 books per year, or approximately 902 books remaining.
I found a picture, thanks to Google images, of a typical bookshelf. HTTP://www.bluejake.com/images/misc/bookshelf.jpg This averages about 55 books per shelf, with five selves per unit. Or about 275 books per unit. This means that the rest of my reading should take up about 3 1/4 shelves. I have space for this along the one wall of my office. That's a pretty concrete limit.
What does this mean? Not much, just some morbid musings. I could start numbering my books in descending order, starting with 902. But mostly, it gives me the idea I should choose my books more carefully.
Jason,
Lets say we read for different purposes: fun, education, focus on work projects and focus away from work issues. If you read for education, take a look at HowToReadABook, I found it helpful. Nice collection by the way. -- HuwLloyd Feb07
I'm pretty well settled in my new job. And I'm definitely thinking of some change artistry here. I think it very much fits the bill of a Variable (Pattern 1) organization, although it seems more and more that the company who bought it is a Steering (Pattern 2) organization. I'm noticing as the new owning company imposes regulations, the "creative typists" are becoming disenchanted. We've lost three from our department. QA seems to have a big turnover. A lot of middle-management was axed without much warning a year or so before I got here, and apparently much of our process knowledge was lost, so it very much requires Lone Ranger tactics to get any working software out the door. Which is kind of fun, actually.
I'm feeling a bit more secure now that I have a decent Topcoder rating, and that I got three different offers before accepting this one, and so I'm itching to experiment. I definitely don't want to be a manager here, although I probably can swing a position with my background, so I'm thinking about bottom-up style experiments.
I'm still trying to get clear on what exactly I'd like to accomplish, then I'm going to recruit a partner, and I think start a blog on the matter. Instead of lone gunning this one, I'd like to try with social support.
It's interesting to see what I wrote above. I sort of dropped "change artistry" as an official project, then I seem to have picked it up as an unofficial one, with a little bit of success. I'm currently using "lean" metaphors. I don't have buy in from upper management, which is so focused on short term costs, and so oblivious to costs which are "unknown and unknowable," that any strategies for improvement need to be under the radar and really cheap or self-funded; however, I'm looking for ways to spread knowledge around. There are only three ways that I know of, and honestly I'm only familiar with one of them:
Unfortunately, I would like to see knowledge transfer between departments, including departments of people who aren't coders. "Lunch and Learn" seems like the only option in my toolbox, though my experience with it is that people find it interesting but have a hard time internalizing a lecture and making it real knowledge.
Suggestions are welcome! Thanks!
Hello Jason, reading the page [Meatball:NonViolence?], I detected you there and became aware, that I wasn't aware of you until now. Please forgive me. You may be interested in [Meatball:FosterUsEachOther?]. -- FridemarPache?
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