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The 21st-Century Intranet
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 24, 2016
Words
242

“This book was recommended by a friend as ‘the greatest book ever on intranet governance.’ I was a little skeptical, seeing as it was 18 years old, but I did internet history so I took a chance on it. Great book. There is barely anything technical in it – the book is basically 400-some-odd pages…”

A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 16, 2022
Words
88

“A good overall discussion of A/B testing. More strategic than tactical – this is a book to convince executives to try experimentation, not for marketers to apply it. (Disclaimer: it was written by the founder of Optimizely, which is sort of the company I work for now. We acquired them, then took…”

The Art of SaaS
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 3, 2017
Words
86

“An extremely short book that’s almost militant in its espousal of the SaaS mindset. It works as a sort of primer for people used to some other paradigm of software delivery to ‘re-program’ them into a SaaS perspective. It covers everything (very briefly and superficially) from development cycles to…”

Cloud Computing
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
February 2, 2017
Words
11

“ Solid book. Straddles the line between the technical and business aspects. ”

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 12, 2023
Words
306

“This book started so well, but then it got way more in-depth than I wanted to get, and it ultimately lost me. This is a book about how computers work. Literally how the computer thinks. The author starts off with basic codes, like Morse Code, explaining how more complex concepts can be made from…”

The Cold Start Problem
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 23, 2022
Words
354

“This is one of those books that I feel like you should read in a group. You should study discuss every chapter. There’s just so much here. The book is about products that require ‘network effects’ to work. Network effects is the concept that some things need more than one person using them to be of…”

The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 1, 2023
Words
189

“This book tries to answer the question: will AI ever be able to emulate human creativity? It never really answers the question, but it’s still very, very interesting. Each chapter covers a different type of creativity: writing, music, art, etc. It’s full of examples and anecdotes about the advances…”

Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 3, 2023
Words
237

“I’ve become interested in interactive fiction lately. I found an article about ergodic fiction, and when I defined that word, I found this book, in which the concept was apparently coined. It’s called Cybertext because the word cyber comes from a prefix refering to the control of systems. This in…”

The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 18, 2016
Words
234

“So, this book didn’t teach me anything new, but it was interesting, and had some good information about early Internet history, which I appreciate. The book has a chapter on each of a variety of ‘dark’ things that the Net plays host to: Trolling Racism and Hate Groups Bitcoin and Crypto-Currency…”

Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 11, 2019
Words
74

“The key to this book is to note that it’s called ‘DESIGNING bots,’ not ‘DEVELOPING bots.’ This book is about all the planning and forethought that goes into create a bot in the generic sense (though, the author works at Slack). It’s about branding, personality, conversation flows, etc. It has…”

Digital Methods
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 28, 2019
Words
122

“This book offers up the premise that the Internet has enabled new methods of original research (new ‘digital methods’) that didn’t exist before. Things like link analysis, search engine indexing analysis, and site crawling analysis. Some of it is interesting, like an extended comparison of the…”

Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and The Future of Technology
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 7, 2022
Words
367

“This is a book about making physical things…do stuff. In a digital world, we tend to think about tech in terms of bits and bytes, but there’s a bunch of physical things that are ‘smart’ as well. How do we move from smart things to ‘enchanted’ things. The author explains: This book is about how to…”

Hypermedia Systems
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 2, 2023
Words
300

“I’ve used HTMX for a number of years (I currently use it on the very website this review was posted to). As such, this book is preaching to the choir quite a bit. Like a lot of situations with technology, the book exists on two levels: To evangelize the use of HTML (‘hypermedia’) to build…”

The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 31, 2024
Words
81

“This is a polemic to interoperability. Doctorow explains why manufacturers made their products resistant to repair, resistant to integration, and complicated to change. He explains the business rationale behind it all, and some of the really dirty tricks that companies have used to make it a crime…”

Learning GraphQL: Declarative Data Fetching for Modern Web Apps
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 28, 2023
Words
62

“This is a solid introduction to GraphQL. The problem is authors have is that GraphQL is a standard, not a technology. So they have to pick and choose how they demonstrate the concepts as opposed to an implementation of it. They do a good job – the chapters are clear, and they eventually move from…”

Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 27, 2016
Words
257

“this is a solid book about larger scale digital governance. i say ‘larger scale’ because it’s primarily about how to get order at the higher-levels – c-level, vp level, and steering committee level. this differentiates ‘governance’ and ‘operations’ for me: governance is Big Picture steering, where…”

Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
February 17, 2016
Words
142

“This book is scattered. The author doesn’t build on a single case, but shotguns all sorts of things at the reader. Additionally, it gets very confused with the author’s desire to discuss workers rights and working conditions. There’s a weird segue in the middle to discuss the Cold War, which – for…”

Modular: The Web’s New Architecture and How It’s Changing Business
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 3, 2022
Words
477

“This is a tough one to review because I’m very close to it – I know Sam, and he mentions me quite a bit in the book, including a lovely acknowledgment. That said, this book is…aspirational. It’s presenting a goal for how Sam wants the web to be. Sam makes claims in here about what’s happening on…”

Philosophical Engineering: Toward a Philosophy of the Web
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
January 15, 2021
Words
69

“I tried to understand this, but it went so, so far over my head. I’ve been working on the web for 25 years. I have a minor in philosophy. Neither of those things helped. I got about halfway through it before giving up. It’s dense , man. I feel badly for not sticking it out, but at the end, I was…”

Reamde
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 6, 2022
Words
195

“An absolutely fantastic novel. Very, very long, but it never slows down. It’s more Tom Clancy than cyberpunk. A MMOPRG does play a part in the plot, but it’s more about globe-hopping and gunfights than computers. You know how when you read about ransomware attacks from Asia, you think, ‘Man, I wish…”

The Road Ahead
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 4, 2020
Words
216

“This book was written 25 years ago, in 1995, right on the cusp of the Internet as we know it today. Bill Gates was the CEO of Microsoft at the time, and this book was really meant to be an look at the exciting things that we coming in the future. It’s chapter after chapter about how the…”

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 19, 2024
Words
408

“I can’t decide if this book was depressing or not. It came out 19 years ago, and even though the author is a little behind in his predictions, a lot of what he wrote about is slowing coming true. ‘The Singularity’ is that moment when technology kind of …takes over. Kurzweil didn’t come up with the…”

The Soul of a New Machine
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 5, 2019
Words
78

“Honestly, I just didn’t get it. This book was described in near-mythical terms, but it seemed tedious to me. Maybe I’m just not used to hardware design, or I’m not an engineer anymore – I don’t know what, but the over-arching point of this was lost. There was some philosophy toward the end of…”

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 3, 2024
Words
146

“This is a long look at the history of spam, in all its forms. Spam has a long history, from email to Usenet to social media to everything in between. The book has a nice general definition of spam: an abuse of someone’s attention. So, if someone is paying attention to something else, and you take…”

Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 23, 2024
Words
152

“I’ll be honest: I have no idea what this woman was talking about. I couldn’t make heads or tails of this book. It was promoted as a book to frame technology. That was an attractive idea to me, I guess. But what I read was a mess. Here are the chapter names: Systems Scale Legacy Matter Deviance…”

What Technology Wants
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 1, 2023
Words
169

“This is the second book I’ve read that sort of argues that technology is kind of its own life form. It ‘wants’ to advance, and humans are just the unwitting accomplices. This isn’t…bad. Meaning the book isn’t dystopian or doom and gloom or something. But is does speak to the idea that technology is…”

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 1, 2014
Words
70

“This book is good if you want a long, detailed history of the ARPANET, the direct predecessor to the Internet. For that, it’s fascinating. That said, it’s not a casual reader. I’m neck-deep in the Internet every day and am a fan of Internet history, and even I got bored in places. Still, if you…”