Winifred Gallagher – How the post office created America
In theory a fascinating topic, but in practice a boring read; as I should have expected because the Post leveraged rather than drove innovation.
To solve the problems facing our planet today, we need to think ahead seven generations
Roman Krznaric – The good ancestor
Hard-felt plea for including future generations into political decision making.
Bayesian nets help prevent flawed statistical arguments and enable the leap from correlation to causation
Judea Pearl and Dana MacKenzie – The book of Why
The practical and relevant examples (health effect of smoking, impact of humanity on climate change) of causal inference alone make the book worthwhile.
A pragmatic programmer has to be an inquisitive, realistic critical thinker and fast adapter that is open to new perspectives and technologies
David Thomas and Andrew Hunt – The pragmatic programmer (20th anniversary edition)
Surprisingly philosophical for a book that has ‘pragmatic’ in its title.