Hoping I can get to all of these in two weeks is ambitious, I know, especially with a new puppy arriving on 20 December! Writing them down and publishing them at least gives me a public goal, so that I don’t spend my entire break playing Donkey Kong Country Returns. The Mezzanine , Nicholson Baker Meditations , Marcus Aurelius Brasyl , Ian McDonald A Fire Upon The Deep , Vernor Vinge Pragmatism , William James
Quotes from The Sportswriter
I have a stack of books I’ve been neglecting for a long time as I suffer through this strange period of not reading very much. Thus, I’m hoping to tackle these books over holiday break.
The final part of my review of Donald Schön’s The Reflective Practitioner.
Part III of my review of Donald Schön’s The Reflective Practitioner.
I’ve been circling around Donald Schön’s The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action for years now and finally got around to reading it. As it turns out, I should have read it a long time ago, since it has so much to say (indirectly) about design and what it means to be a designer today, especially designers in the experience design realm. As it turns out, there is a reason for the fact we’re constantly fighting about things like role/discipline boundaries and titles. The book also offers and analyzes a way of working that is very very much how I work and, I suspect, how many people in my field do as well.
On a tip from Joel Spolsky, I picked up the informative and entertaining Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
I don’t usually review non-design books here–unless of course, I can somehow relate them to design. But I won’t do that to Book 7 of the Harry Potter series. And No Spoilers for those who are still reading or will wait to see the movies. I finished the book in about 13 hours of solid [...]