Good day! Hope you are doing well. This post does not cover a technical subject. If you follow my blog, you might have noticed that about one out of five books I purchase and read are not technical. I believe that success is based on both technical expertise and proper management.
A few decades ago I developed the software methodology which I named Cyclic Development Process (CDP for short). I applied it and tweaked it in order to simplify the development of custom and product systems. It worked very well for me. Continue reading “Measure What Matters by John Doerr”
Good day, it has been a while since my last post. Have been quite busy at work and home. The holidays are approaching so things might improve somewhat.
In this post I will make a short review of the book “The Alignment Problem” by Brian Christian.
During the past few months it has been somewhat hectic for me. I used to write and post on my blog more often. Lately I have set aside only weekend mornings to learn new things and refresh (courses), experiment, and write posts.
I just finished reading and to some extent experimenting with most of the concepts presented in the book by Dzejla Medjedovic, Emin Tahirovic with illustrations by Ines Dedovic © 2022 Manning Publications ISBN: 9781617298035.
I typically get a couple dozen technical books for each non technical. I purchased via Amazon “Deep Work” by Cal Newport. I saw it mention while reading an article in Medium. It took me less than a week to read the book. The subject is very well known to me. Will explain why it is the case in the following paragraphs.
I have been purchasing items from Amazon through the years. With two exceptions the experience so far has been very positive.
n general I tend to read only one book at a time. I fully understand that when you are in K-12 and later in college, you are obliged to read books for the different simultaneous courses that you are taking. Once people are done with formal training, most of us never read a book again. That is a shame. It seems that the rush in life does not give us time to read. When tired we just sit and want to be entertained by whatever is being showed on TV or at a theater. My wife and I prefer to sit down and chat. When we are not working and are not together, we both read books. About a year ago we stopped watching TV so we returned the cable boxes. Today we only have Internet access. That way, when someone recommends a movie, we are able to get it on-line. All our TV sets at home are equipped with Chromecast which makes it so easy to watch from pictures to movies. 
A few weeks ago I was looking in Amazon for books that dealt with photogrammetry. During my search some associated books showed up. After taking a look at the table of content on two that called my attention, I decided to go with both, not for depth in the subject, but to get a broad look at GIS.
Hope your Memorial Day weekend 2017 is going well. Yesterday afternoon my wife and I stopped by her brother’s place to prepare, cook and then consume a late lunch. Earlier in the day my wife chopped some onions and peppers, cut some chicken thighs and pork shoulder, I pulled from the freezer some bags of shell fish (OK sue me, we eat pork and shell fish) and an assortment of spices (including saffron). We put in the trunk of the car a box holding the ingredients and our 24” paella pan.