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1月3日 Book Review: Microserfs Generally I'm not much into fiction but when a friend recommended Microserfs as a fun little book about early days at Microsoft, I thought I should give it a shot. The book is an easy read for a layman without any arcane references to the computing terms. The writing style is so immersing that after a while you feel like you have known Karla, Dan, Susan, Michael etc for a while.
There are a couple of gripes though. Since I was reading a fiction I kinda expected something dramatic, *fictional* to happen. Instead this book just went on like a real story and ended without much of a climax. Also the main reason why I wanted to read this was to see if I can get a glimpse of the early Microsoft days but since most of the story happens in the Bay Area, it was a bit of a letdown.
Still I'd recommend it as a comfort read for a geek. 10月22日 Negotiations and EmotionsNegotiation is an art. I heard a talk by Dan Shapiro recently on using emotions for effective negotiations. Dan, an entertaining orator, is a researcher at the Harvard Negotiation Project and author of the book beyond reason. He boiled down the art to a simple 5 key formula.
In my everyday life that I mostly spend coding away behind closed door, I doubt that I'd need a tehnique to handle any discussions and negotiations but I liked the approach... something to keep handy for the annual review meeting :) |
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