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Very telegraphically, these are my impressions after reading “Hit Refresh”:
– Impressive human being. He tells you how his personal experiences have shaped him, not only personally but also professionally.
Some of the ideas worth exploring that … Continue reading Book highlights: “Hit refresh” by Satya Nadella
Very telegraphically, these are my impressions after reading “Hit Refresh”:
– Impressive human being. He tells you how his personal experiences have shaped him, not only personally but also professionally.
Some of the ideas worth exploring that … Continue reading Book highlights: “Hit refresh” by Satya Nadella
This brief book by Hannah Fry is inspired by her TED talk with the same title: The mathematics of love.
The main (very personal and non-comprehensive and biased) highlights I would like to share are:- When finding a partner: Give people a chance. Reduc… Continue reading Book highlights: The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
Just some practical sentences about this book from 2005 by Thomas A. Limoncelli.
If you are working in Information Security or in Information Technology in general, and you need to improve managing your time and prioirities, this book deals with this e… Continue reading Book tip: “Time management for system admins” by Thomas A. Limoncelli
I came accross this book by Paul B. Brown, Charles F. Kiefer and Leonard A. Schlesinger almost by chance. The title was enticing so I decided to give it a go. You can read it really fast and the structure is very approachable. Having an Information Sec… Continue reading Book review: “Own Your Future : How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy” by Paul B. Brown et al. The ALBR process
Keith McCullough and Richard Blake wrote this book in 2011: “Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager: From the Top, to the Bottom, and Back Again“. Keith McCullough was also the author of the mcmmacro blog (already discontinued in 2008). This book has nothing to do with Information Security. At least it does not have a explicit link. Why do I post this review then? Let’s summarise it in telegraphic bullet points:
– Being a hedge fund manager is tough. The author mentions how starting work at 4 am was nothing extraordinary. Time required on a daily basis to follow companies and feel markets’ sentiment is huge. Information security displays the same trait.
– The book uses the professional sports world (more specifically, hockey) as an analogy. In both fields, required efforts and focus and existing competition are comparable. Also applicable to Infosec? I think so.
– The mantra in hedge funding: Liquidity, transparency (well, actually the authors claim that during the first decade of this Century it was insufficient) and returns (on each and every single quarter!).
– This book also suggests a higher degree of self-involvement in personal financial investment strategies. I would also suggest the same for personal Information Security strategies.
– Short-term performance, during those early years of hedge funding, was given more priority than to adherence to principles. How is the Information Security field in this respect?
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This time I write about a book by Eli Pariser first appeared in 2011. It title points to its main content: The filter bubble. How the new personalized web is changing what we read and how we think.As it were real future-telling, the author, already in … Continue reading Book highlights: The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
This time I write about a book by Eli Pariser first appeared in 2011. It title points to its main content: The filter bubble. How the new personalized web is changing what we read and how we think.As it were real future-telling, the author, already in … Continue reading Book highlights: The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
This book about Willpower by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney is worth reading it to prepare the next term, especially when the to-do list is long and the leisure temptations are formidable.In a super concise nutshell, and never replacing its reading, t… Continue reading Book highlights: Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
Intro The following points come from a book by many Googleans and related colleagues such as Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy title “Site Reliability Engineering: How Google runs productions systems”.DisclaimerDisclaim… Continue reading Book Review: Site Reliability Engineering. How Google runs production systems