I recommend giving this book by Steve Yegge and Gene Kim a good skim even if not a thorough read. I found its best parts to be their advice about the day-to-day approach a software developer can take with respect to coding assistants (Part 3 of the book). But should you even invest time in […]
The book Java Generics and Collections (O’Reilly 2007) by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler provides a grand tour of generics as available within Java. I feel I have a much better handle on the topic now. I only read the first part of the book (the rest is about Collection classes). What the book lacks […]
This was a nice and understandable introduction to ChatGPT, by the noted scientist Stephen Wolfram who is also the creator of Mathematica software. Given that there would be a lot of maths underpinning the workings of ChatGPT, Wolfram does a good job not overloading you with the details. He uses simplified models and lots of […]
This is actually two books masquerading as one. The first is full of great advice on how to identify a genuine customer need and validate it before creating a company around it. In my opinion, you should absolutely read this part, ideally 1-2 years before setting up shop. The second half is largely standard advice […]
This is a crisp booklet by the famous management consultant Peter Drucker. It focuses on a few time tested general practices and hammers them home nicely rather than getting lost in the weeds. It draws upon decades of the author’s practice and probably due to that, I was delighted to find subtle gems of practical […]
I read Jason Fried and David H Hansson’s book “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work” and found it underwhelming. While the authors advocate a specific approach to running companies and building software, they base it all on the success of just their one company (Basecamp). They do not explain how companies of different […]