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Back from my business trip to Kiev where I also had the opportunity to once again visit all the city staples like: St. Michael’s, St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral, St. Andrew’s Church, Motherland Monument, Golden Gates. No time for Pechersk Lavra …
"Apple. It was a smart choice. The word instantly signaled friendliness and simplicity. It managed to be both slightly off-beat and as normal as a slice of pie. There was a whiff of counterculture, back-to-nature earthiness to it, yet nothing could be more American. And the two words together - Apple Computer - provided an amusing disjuncture."
Walter Isaacson
Books I’m planning to read in the next few months …
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
- Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
- The Future of Management
- A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
- Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
"John Sculley had made a series of proclamations that nowadays sound embarrassing. Jobs wanted Apple “to become a wonderful consumer products company,” Sculley wrote. “This was a lunatic plan… . Apple would never be a consumer products company… . We couldn’t bend reality to all our dreams of changing the world… . High tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product."
Walter Isaacson
Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Boombox
