Wayne Stidolph's Reading List

Updated: Sept 24, 2010

Now reading

I like to interleave reading from several books, to let the subject matter settle and because sometimes there's interesting interactions between the ideas)

• Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis beautiful book on digging through data using visualizations without getting fooled
• presentationZen Design good work on human-friendly presentation (triggering me to rethink this page of bullet points!)
• Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs on doing better presentations ... good advice, tediously presented

Up Next

• Sound Reporting how NPR does radio reporting, how an audio story is told

Recent Readings

• Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality,  The Art of the Start, Seeing What's Next while pondering how to get some of my ideas into applications
• The Nine a personality-centric description of the US Supreme Court
• Animal Spirits very interesting discussion of the role of attitudes, confidence, and expectations in driving economic activity
• A Farewell To Alms overview of changing world economy

Web munchies (worth being on the Reader list)

• Joel on Software good discussions of software, management, office layout, ... not much happening lately
• Rands in Repose thoughtful essays on being a nerd/manager
• Useit Alertbox succint web usability guidelines
• The Berserker Always Dies an ignite-style (5 minute) exploration of the hero culture in software development, with lessons drawn from the epic poem Beowulf.

"I should (re)read"

• Domain-Driven Design on domain/model design techniques: great brain-food for developers, managers, and direct customers