Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra My rating: 2 of 5 stars A book designed for visual learners. Ironically, the slow and often repetitive build-up of topics on how to help users become badass resulted in the very cognitive leaks that the author devoted significant pages to advocate against. So at the end of… Read More »
The Napkin The Melon The Monkey: How to Be Happy and Successful by Simply Changing Your Mind by Barbara Burke My rating: 3 of 5 stars A short and easy read (130 pages with key points repeated in many places). Conceptually sound, but a bit short on practicality. Those looking for a detailed “how-to” guide… Read More »
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you like Malcolm Gladwell’s investigative journalistic style, you will take to this book like a duck to water. The notes at the back, based on my rough estimate, span almost one-quarter… Read More »
There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids by Linda Åkeson McGurk My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book touches on an important aspect of early childhood development that many parents and educators in the digital age tend to neglect. Written in a part-memoir,… Read More »
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Like most dreams, Einstein’s Dreams are open to interpretations. The book started off a bit slow, but as you progress through the series of dreams, you’ll come to appreciate the passage of time in the various ways described. Some of these scenarios give rise… Read More »
Machiavelli on Business: Strategies, Advice, and Words of Wisdom on Business and Power by Stephen Brennan My rating: 1 of 5 stars Reads like an analysis of Nostradamus’ predictions, i.e. everything is open to interpretation. Unfortunately, the so-called “analyses” are often shorter than the excerpts from the original works, making this book appear like a… Read More »